With nine candidates in the running for Speaker, some Republicans are raising questions over whether their votes on overturning the 2020 election results should be a factor in electing the next lea…

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      1 year ago

      Not coincidentally, an entire literature has been written on this by constitutional scholars and historians in the past few years.

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      Because governments are not absolute, perfect systems. You can have a functionally useful system that still happens to allow bad faith participants to get voted in.