Representative Smith filed a motion to vacate against the Speaker after they refused to bring a crucial bill to the floor for a vote. The Speaker’s controversial actions sparked widespread support for a motion to vacate, but ultimately the resolution failed to pass. Some members argue that the...
The rule was invoked in 2015, when then-GOP Rep. Mark Meadows filed a motion to vacate against Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who ultimately resigned as speaker and from Congress before a vote was held. In addition, McCarthy agreed to give more seats on the House Rules committee to...
A "motion to vacate the chair" is a procedure rank-and-file lawmakers can use to remove the speaker. Current GOP rules allow for a majority of House Republicans to trigger the effort. McCarthy had previously agreed to drop the threshold to just five lawmakers to s...
Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate. It’s the same political dynamic that removed the last Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, in October. 2 of 5 | House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of being ousted. Hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia filed a ...
A motion to vacate has only ever been voted on once, in 1910, in an effort to boot then-Speaker Joseph Cannon. The effort failed. In 2015, then-Rep. Mark Meadows filed a resolution to force a vote on then-Speaker John Boehner’s leadership. Bu...
Apple on Thursday filed a motion to vacate the court order demanding it help the FBI break into an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino attacks. The motion (via The Verge) is the company's first legal response to the order, which was handed down by a federal judge last week. Rhetoric in...
MOTION TO VACATE, CORRECT, OR SET ASIDE THE PETITIONER’S SENTENCE PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 2255 COMES NOW, the Petitioner DWIGHT D. YORK, by and through undersigned counsel, and moves this Honorable Court to vacate the convictions and subsequent sentence heretofore ...
He wound upbeing oustedin early October by eight House Republicans and all Democrats after Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., filed a motion to vacate against him. Johnson was elected by the GOP Conference three weeks later. The Louisiana Republican said he never advocated for the rule change but expe...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., told reporters on Friday that she filed a motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., accusing him of having "betrayed" the "confidence" of the House GOP Conference by ushering through a bipartisan $1.2 trillion federal funding bill to avoid a...
to vacate the 2011 cross-state emissions rule for power plants as applied to Texas because the time has passed for the state to make such a request, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA v. EME Homer City Generation LP, D.C. Cir., No. 11-1302, reply filed 7/28/14)....