nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230107-121529-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230107s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230107-121529-0 doi eng 342 23 Scheppele, Kim Lane Author aut A House in Disorder Scheppele, Kim Lane Verfassungsblog 2023-01-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In this post, I’ll explain what has been going on as the House of Representatives has cast an unprecedented number of ballots for Speaker of the House. There are quaint legal reasons why all of this is happening. But then I want to ponder what this says about the ability of the Republican Party to govern the United States because this early-days shutdown of the House follows a pattern in which, for nearly 40 years, the Republicans have wanted to both dominate the federal government and shut it down. CC BY-SA 4.0 Kevin McCarthy Republican Party Speaker of the House Unwritten Constitution US Congress US constitution Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-house-in-disorder/ raw object