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Federal judge rules $1.7 trillion spending bill passed by Congress in 2022 is unconstitutional
Fox News via MSN ^ | 2/27/24 | Greg Wehner

Posted on 02/28/2024 2:40:44 AM PST by Libloather

A Lubbock, Texas federal judge ruled Tuesday that lawmakers unconstitutionally passed the $1.7 trillion government funding bill in 2022 when they did so under a pandemic-era rule allowing members of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote on the matter by proxy instead of in person.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, requested the courts to block a provision of the funding bill that gave pregnant workers stronger legal protections.

U.S. District Judge Wesley Hendrix reviewed the request and gave a "limited" ruling on one of two provisions Paxton sought to have blocked.

Hendrix, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, ruled that the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was wrongfully passed, blocking the law from being enforced against the state as an employer.

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which was enacted in December 2022, requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers.

In his ruling, Hendrix noted that his injunction is only applicable to state government employees.

Paxton filed a lawsuit last year, arguing the federal spending package was unconstitutionally passed because over half of the House of Representatives were not physically present to provide a quorum, yet they still voted by proxy.

In May 2020, then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, helped get a rule in place allowing lawmakers to vote by proxy, in response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

When Republicans took control of the House in 2022, they ditched the proxy rule after challenging it in court unsuccessfully.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2022; 89to1; congress; jameswesleyhendrix; ndtexas; obamajudge; spending; trumpjudge; unconstitutional; wesleyhendrix
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To: Libloather
When Republicans took control of the House in 2022, they ditched the proxy rule after challenging it in court unsuccessfully.

Ah!

But which court, and which judge? This appears to matter greatly in our phony, cr@p third world banana republic "justice" system.

In this case, James Wesley Hendrix is a Trump judge.

21 posted on 02/28/2024 11:08:16 AM PST by kiryandil
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To: Libloather

So, can we garnish the paychecks of Congress for the next million years?


22 posted on 02/28/2024 2:10:08 PM PST by Brown Deer
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To: PeterPrinciple

“You want the federals govt to define reasonable? and redefine it and.”

I have been a businessman and employer all my life. And some addictions absolutely need a forced intervention or they kill innocent souls.

The most deadly of those addictions is radical extremist greed to the point of killing human beings like flies.


23 posted on 02/28/2024 3:50:19 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Libloather

So what’s the penalty for these criminal filth?


24 posted on 02/28/2024 3:56:28 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
So, if voting by proxy instead of in person makes a spending bill invalid,

That's not the argument. Proxy is a different issue, but the main this here is that there weren't even enough Reps physically present to have a quorum to do business at all.
25 posted on 02/28/2024 4:00:49 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: kiryandil

“But which court, and which judge?”

Judge Dredd.


26 posted on 02/28/2024 4:07:43 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Svartalfiar

Close enough in principal to make my argument.


27 posted on 02/28/2024 7:04:15 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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