This is a serious 10th amendment violation.
The 10th amendment reserves to the states, or to the people, rights not delegated to the federal government.
The right to choose their own representation is a right of the people. When Maxine Waters' vote is being cast via proxy by Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the people of Waters' district are no longer be represented; Maryland is voting in California's name.
The proxy vote is not Waters' to give away, the vote belongs to the people of her district who selected Waters - not Raskin - to vote in their name. The 10th amendment does not give a member of the House the right to trade their vote as if it were a commodity; if she cannot vote it herself, the people of her district have the right to ask her to step down and let another representative from the district be elected to vote the interests of the people being represented - the people of her district and not Raskin's.
-PJ
“This is a serious constitutional violation, and not just via the rulemaking clause of Article I § 5.”
This is a serious 10th amendment violation.
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Article I, Section 5, Clause 2:
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.