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The Dershow

The House is out of order

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the dirt show the Republicans are still at it. They can't elect a

0:06.5

speaker of the house. They're at recess now and there are all kinds of rumors

0:13.6

that there are things being discussed. We'll discuss some of them in a minute.

0:19.4

My first question is this, how can these people be voting on speaker of the

0:25.2

house? They have never been sworn in as members of the House of Representatives.

0:31.4

Some of them have never been in House of Representatives. They were just

0:36.4

elected. They haven't taken an oath of office. How can they decide who the

0:41.8

third person in line for the presidency is going to be? What status do they have?

0:48.0

They're not members of the House of Representatives. Yet, the practice, the

0:55.4

practice in the House of Representatives is to allow the caucus. What's the

1:01.8

caucus? It just means the the members voting by party essentially. But the

1:07.8

Constitution seems to say differently and as you know I read the

1:13.5

Constitution and I read it the way it was written and the Constitution

1:17.8

seems to be as clear as it could be that these non-members cannot select

1:24.3

the speaker of the House. That what they're doing today is blatantly

1:29.8

unconstitutional. Let's remember one thing. Speaker of the House is one of the

1:33.2

few people other than President, Vice President, Senators.

1:39.0

Speaker that's one of the few offices that is expressly provided for

1:43.8

in the Constitution itself. Let me read to you from Article 1 of the Constitution.

1:50.2

The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers

1:57.9

and shall have the sole power of impeachment. So let's be clear. The Constitution

2:04.2

uses the same term, the House of Representatives. They use the same term

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