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A timely reminder that the Speaker of the House controls the chamber where joint sessions are held, and congress is a co-equal branch of government. rawstory.com/2019/01/stephe…
Fun fact: the SOTU used to be submitted to congress as a written report. It's basically a constitutionally required update on the operations of the executive branch, delivered to the branch that controls the purse strings. history.house.gov/Institution/SO…
I think Americans have gotten so used to weak Speakers, they've forgotten how powerful that office actually is, as conceived in Article 1.
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Beto making a visual, visceral case against Trump's wall (that Mexico is not paying for). The eminent domain point seems particularly salient, given that much of the privately owned land that would have to be used/seized for Trump's wall is in Texas.
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Joy Reid
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The @_shethepeople leaderboard of 2020 picks by politically active WOC:

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Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is a head of a co-equal branch of government.

Pelosi *invited* Trump to give the SOTU speech in the House chamber. She was under no obligation—other than tradition—to do so.

As such, she doesn't have to "ask" him to reschedule.
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