The House is out of order
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 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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