Zoom Congress Is Perfectly Constitutional
A functioning national legislature has never been more necessary. America’s executive branch has proved itself unwilling or unable to mount a timely or effective response to an unprecedented health crisis that has already killed more than 30,000 Americans, infected at least half a million, and left millions more without jobs. The most important remedy available to Americans—removing the failed government by free elections, now just months away—is equally in jeopardy, absent critical increases in funding for both the federal post office and state election authorities to support voting by mail. And yet, Congress is not functioning at all. It has announced its determination to remain in recess, and it has no credible plan to operate remotely. The prospect that Congress will be incapable of fulfilling its most basic duty to “provide for the common defense” is today frighteningly real.
