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    • Does the speaker have to be an appointed or elected member of the House to hold office as Speaker of the House?

       The Constitution is largely silent on that question, saying simply: "The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.”  U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 2, clause 5 

       

      The Clerk of the House agrees with the House Historian, stating: "the speaker has always been (but is not required to be) a House Member."  Most historians and legal experts who've looked at this issue conclude the founders simply assumed the speaker would be drawn from its members.

      The Ineligibility Clause (Article 1, Section 6, Clause 2) states:

      "No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office."

      The Ineligibility Clause defines a civil officer as an appointed officer of any of the branches of government... making them ineligible to hold more than one CIVIL office at a time.  Therefore anyone not already a civil officer of the government is eligible to be Speaker of the House.  However, a Speaker who is not a member of the House would not be eligible to vote or participate in many of the functions and duties of the Speaker due to the current House rules. There would need to be significant changes made to the House Rules to enable a non-member of the House to properly execute their duties and responsibilities as Speaker of the House...

    • The Globalist had better study history... every Marxist insurgency goes thru phases and once they have secured their hold on the government...purges of the wealthy and the confiscation of their wealth rapidly follows... before the Marxist secure their hold on government they string the liberal capitalists along with false promises of participation n a coalition government. 

      Wake up ... study history... if anything, the Marxists are doctrinally predictable.

    • The communists took everything from everybody, they stole national treasures, they depleted every country they could, and murdered all those who were knowledgeable who could speak against them, everyone over 30 was considered dangerous, the rest could be re-educated, fear made the young admire their oppressors, they were impressed by the level of control they had, how everyone buckled in front of their power. They are predictable over all because their methods have worked over and over. 

    • Exactly, ilona...

  • They should be, but we still need to make sure we vote, and vote smart!

  • That works both ways, a wall around the White House could serve to protect Hillary should she steal the election in 2024...Martial Law would only happen if Biden decides to stay in office.. If that were to happen, there would be no election....

  • With nearly 30 democrat Congress-critters and a few dem Senatards retiring before the mid-terms Snidely Whiplash Schumer and his partner Nancy Mum-Ra the Ever Living Pelso should be terrified. I do see a red wave coming this year but I also know that the dem-wits will try to cheat like they did in 2020. 

    • The "dem-wits will try to cheat..."  TRY?  They have been fraudulently stealing elections for decades... it is now a science with their party. First, stop calling felony election fraud cheating... stealing elections is not cheating, copying your friend's homework is cheating.  Next, once it is understood how harmful and criminal such acts are maybe... just maybe we can put some of its agents in prison.  

      Until there are actual criminal consequences for Election and Voter Fraud...  that puts thousands in jail the dem-wits will continue to openly seal elections including the coming mid-terms... and without any formal change to enforcement, our police agencies and military are likely to support the fraud. We should expect more of the same.  Too, expect otherwise is delusional. It would be a gross underestimate of how corrupt the dem-wits and our police agencies and courts have become... The Jan 6th Congressional hearings are a glairing measure of their boldness and fearless abuse of power.  Elections have been managed to predetermined outcomes for decades.  Look for more of the same.

  • Scumber  hells  a coming  and  our red wave will sweep you and your commie  buddy's  in to the pit you and your cheting party  have dug along with that Illagitament  fool in our White House. 

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