McCarthy Digs In to Oppose Proxy Voting In House

“Plenty of House Republicans have softened their stance on remote voting during the pandemic. Not their leader, who’s digging in all the way to the Supreme Court,” Politico reports.

“The high court will decide as soon as Friday whether to take up the lawsuit that Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and fellow House Republicans brought against a measure allowing proxy voting in the chamber. They’re fighting against the odds on multiple fronts: Not only did a federal appeals court previously dismiss the case, but more than half of McCarthy’s own conference took their name off the anti-proxy-voting lawsuit after initially signing on.”