January 25, 2022 - San Francisco – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this statement after the Supreme Court refused to overturn the lower court’s dismissal of the lawsuit by House Republicans seeking to block remote voting by proxy during the pandemic:

“The Supreme Court’s refusal of House Republicans’ request to overturn the dismissal of their frivolous lawsuit is a victory for the Congress, the rule of law and public health.  Both the Constitution and more than a century of legal precedent make clear that the House is empowered to determine its own rules – and remote voting by proxy falls squarely within this purview.

“With this failed lawsuit, Republicans have worked to recklessly endanger the health of colleagues, staffers and institutional workers.  In doing so, they have fought harder to try to score political points than they have fought to help struggling families during the pandemic.  They do so with great shame and hypocrisy, as last year alone more than half of the Members of their conference designated a proxy so that they could vote remotely.

“As our nation continues to battle the pandemic, Republicans must now abandon this sad stunt and join Democrats to crush the virus, grow our economy and bring down costs for families.“
Source: Speaker Nancy Pelosi