This post originally appeared at https://davidblaska.com/2024/12/23/chuse-disruption/
Nun of the above for House speaker! It is an oddity of that perplexing, little-read document, the U.S. Constitution. A concept stranger than the Electoral College: that the U.S. House of Representatives “shall chuse their Speaker” and s/he need not be a member! This is the Groucho Marx proviso — not deigning to belong to […]