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Hi, this is Alex, clerking at the circuit court in Salem, Oregon,

where our office is finally dealing with its very first writ of mandamus. of Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be reminding people that the only difference between the Supreme Court and a circuit court is that a Supreme Court comes with tomatoes and sour cream.

All right. Enjoy the show.

I feel like that joke crushes at circuit court judge conferences.

Probably.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast, I cover politics.

I'm Deirdre Welsh, I cover Congress.

And I'm Domenico Moncunaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

And as we're fond of saying on this podcast, things have changed since the last time you heard from us.

Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green attempted to force a vote that would

remove Speaker Mike Johnson from leadership, but most Republicans and some Democrats voted to block it.

Deirdre, Republicans used a procedural move, something that's known as a motion to table,

basically just to sideline this attempt.

Break down the vote for us. Yeah, I mean, I think Republicans sideline this there for weeks and vowed that she would force the vote this week. I don't actually

think they were expecting it to come up tonight. This happened sort of in the middle of

a series of votes that were going to be the last series for the week.

They were going to end the week early and I think that's why Marjorie Taylor Green decided to make her move.

The procedural motion to table was just to kill her resolution to oust the speaker. Democratic

leaders already signaled they would vote with Republicans to table any resolution

to oust Johnson. They made good on that promise. The vote was

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