Ping
Hopefully they hold Pelosi in the DC gulag as they wait for oral arguments.
Nannie probably never read it, but the 27th amendment states,
“No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.”
Additionally,
Article I. Section 6 guarantees pay for members of Congress.
Article II, Section 1 guarantees payment for the Executive and that it will be neither increased nor decreased during his term.
Article III, Section 1 guarantees payment for judges and that it will not be decreased during term of service.
The Founders understand that tyrants use money to reward allies and punish enemies, and that doing so is both arbitrary and corrupt. It is not a leap to infer that the protection against diminishing salaries of the executive and of judges would also apply to members of Congress, especially as a means of political punishment.
1 representative from 1 district of 1 state rules over all other representatives from all other districts of all the states. Somehow I don’t think it was meant to be this way in our constitutional republic.