Kevin McCarthy's 'performative' planned Constitution stunt torn apart by law expert

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On Friday, legal expert Chris Geidner took to Twitter to tear apart House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for one of the first plans he has announced once the Republican majority is officially sworn into the chamber.

Link to tweet

"On the very first day of the new Republican-led Congress, we will read every single word of the Constitution aloud from the floor of the House — something that hasn't been done in years," McCarthy had pledged. However, Geidner took issue with several aspects of this idea.

"1. It’s the House you’re leading, not Congress. 2. A public reading like this is performative," wrote Geidner. Furthermore, he continued, "3. Who will read the Three-Fifths Clause? 4. Who will read the 14th Amendment?"

Republicans gained fewer than ten seats in the House, after many experts had predicted a blowout wave election with potentially dozens of pickups for the GOP. Democrats maintained control of the Senate, carrying 50 seats with a 51st on the line in Georgia next month in a runoff election between Democratic Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock and Trump-backed former football star Herschel Walker.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kevin-mccarthy-s-performative-planned-constitution-stunt-torn-apart-by-law-expert/ar-AA14zaDs

[elleng]

1. SURE they will

'read every single word of the Constitution aloud from the floor of the House .'

[Midnight Writer]

2. The GOP is the Party of Stunts. It is all they have.

[aggiesal]

15. GQP is an organized syndicate (i.e. a conservative Mafia) n/t

[yankee87]

26. Absolutely

Mobster mentality

[calimary]

40. Sure does seem like it.

[Rebl2]

17. Yep

[Takket]

3. "When will you fix inflation?" asked all the idiots who voted rethug thinking they would ACTUALLY

do something about inflation

[Beartracks]

9. Probably a couple weeks after they present their health plan...

... which will be in a couple of weeks.

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[Beaverhausen]

4. Has he been elected Speaker yet?

I missed it if he was.

Why is he deciding what the House will do on day one?

[Mr.Bill]

5. I'm not sure that many republicans

can read.

[LiberalFighter]

6. The last time was in 2011. Not that long ago.

[Aristus]

7. He should read the Declaration of Independence, too.

That whole "merciless Indian savages" passage will go over well...

[rsdsharp]

8. Boner said the same thing. Then somebody actually read the Constitution

before the big day, and things they didn’t like were left out of the reading — like the 3/5th clause relative to the census. Boner also announced that each bill must reference the Constitutional provision that authorized it. That lasted about 20 minutes.

Kevin, like Trump, has never read it. If he did, he wouldn’t understand it. If he understood it, he wouldn’t like it.

[Bucky]

21. Which is lame since "promote the general welfare" covers just everything

as does the "necessary and proper" clause

[luvtheGWN]

27. Doesn't "general welfare" include healthcare for all?

Asking for a friend.......

[Bucky]

36. Exactly. Really any kind of economic infrastructure--from bridges to job training programs

Old school Republicans use this clause when they promoted inner-city development through "enterprise zones" -- a conservative idea that worked good enough that Democrats adopted it too.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. And, It's In There Twice!

It's in the preamble & It's in the article covering the legislature. And, the context is the same.
But, conservatives ignore it both times.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. Which edition will they read, Amon Bundy's? To read it aloud first they must be able to read.

[Fullduplexxx]

11. It'll be like how they read the 2a .

Nothing nothing blah blah blah SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

[plimsoll]

12. They're going to read the Unicornstitution!

It says all the things they want it to say.

[Bo Zarts]

13. Kevin talks ..

Bo Zarts .. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz .. z!

[Girard442]

14. Personally, I'd love to see them do it.

Every Republican House member reads. All R members have to be in attendance the whole time, and ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and Fox have to carry the entire thing live, beginning to end with no commercial breaks.

Otherwise it's just some guy in an empty room pointlessly muttering into a microphone.

[NJCher]

22. re your last statement

so how about this: every member is given 5-10 minutes to write out a paraphrase of what they heard.

Each paraphrase will be picked up an aide and posted online by Congressional district so any member of that district can see the understanding each representative has.

If this sounds juvenile and schoolmarmish, excuse me, but I am a schoolteacher. I do this (write out a paraphrase) in classes and it is quite revealing as to how deep of an understanding the listener has.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. There's a Congress and a Pres and some judges and error corrections and GUNS.

Now gimme my gold star or I'll superglue your desk drawers!

[Pepsidog]

16. Maybe he should watch a Tik-Tok on what is Congress? They really are that stupid.

For the record, Congress has two parts, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Congress meets in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. just in case Kevin asks.

[republianmushroom]

18. the 14th scares the crap out of Kevin, 22 months and counting where is the DoJ

[Genki Hikari]

32. The DOJ is presenting cases to a grand jury

Ask the grand jury why they haven't indicted.

[republianmushroom]

38. and you know this how ? They will only indict after all the

the evidence has been produced. If the DoJ says there is more than they will wait.

[Talitha]

19. Hey, why not? Look how much they improved our infrastructure when Dump was in office.

What a bunch of clowns.

[Bucky]

20. Watch out for the ones who offer to read the 3/5ths clause

[NBachers]

23. I suggest someone hand him a copy that begins with the Douchebag Clause.

[aeromanKC]

24. Gabby Gifford's read the first amendment just days before her attempted assassination

The last time it was read in Congress.

[Martin Eden]

25. I have no doubt they will be as faithful the Constitution

As they are to the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Which is to say not at all.

[yankee87]

30. The white republican Jesus

Of course the Jesus they worship carries an AK47, denies food to the poor and says all rich people are God’s chosen. Then the only amendment that matters, the shortened 2nd, right to bear arms.

[Genki Hikari]

33. Funny, they don't seem all that different from your hero there.

He wasn't always a nice guy, you know: beating up merchants because they made him mad--over a non-violent offense. Hating on foreigners enough to call them dogs to their faces. Promoting divisiveness, even amongst families. Wanting to hurt people forever if they don't agree with him.

But, sure, they aren't like him at all.

[Martin Eden]

35. My hero?

I'm agnostic and don't subscribe to any religion.

But the core message from Jesus as I undertand it was to help the poor and the sick and to welcome the stranger.

He overturned the tables of the money changers in the temple, and did not equate wealth with virtue.

I don't hold up Jesus or anyone else as some kind of perfect being. I evaulate their ideas and their life's work to the best of my ability.

No one can pass a purity test.

Early on, Abraham Lincoln's views on the African race would be appalling today, but he grew and learned and changed his views.

The gist of my first post is that rightwing "Christians" are among the worst hypocrites on the planet, and the planned recitation of the Constitution is performative hypocrisy as well.

[Stinky The Clown]

28. Hey, Kev . . . . ?

[mn9driver]

31. The GQP has no platform and no purpose except permanent power.

They don’t have any legislation ready to go. All they have are hearings about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

[gulliver]

37. The Dems should read the House of Reps' oath of office aloud

And the cameras should pan to the Republicans looking at their shoes the whole time

[Journeyman]

39. Don't need you to read the Constitution, just want you to adhere to it . . .

that would impress me most.