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Unless the majority of republican reps are calling for it, there's literally no point in even mentioning it.
This guy weathered the brunt of it when republicans were openly criticizing it. There's no doubt he's not up to the task in front of him, but the party won't challenge it at this point.
we don't even need the majority. we need 4 repubs to flip in the house and like 2 in the Senate to get a majority vote on something
No, the Hastert Rule (which Johnson would absolutely invoke again) would mean we'd need a supermajority in order to force it to actually get voted on. A simple majority can't force a floor vote.
It can be bypassed with a discharge petition but those are incredibly rare, and as we saw with the Epstein files, at the point that a party thinks they're likely to lose to one they'll figure out another route to forestall (like SCOTUS or having the FBI redact everything that hurts them).
Of course. Why wouldn't we want a rule that keeps us from passing a bill that the majority of members would vote for? /s
It's a republic, not a democracy.
(Or whatever people say these days to justify how the legislative and electoral systems are complete trash)