by Epoch Edge Press | Nov 5, 2026 | Political Events
A Speaker of the House election is simpler than it looks and stranger than most people expect. Members-elect vote out loud, one at a time, by surname. The winner needs a majority of the votes cast for a person by name — not always 218. Until somebody clears that...
by Epoch Edge Press | Nov 2, 2026 | Political Events
A lame duck session is the stretch of time when Congress comes back to work after an election but before the newly elected members are sworn in. The outgoing Congress keeps every power it had the day before the votes were counted. Members who lost, retired, or were...
by Epoch Edge Press | Oct 29, 2026 | Political Events
Short answer: Congress expels a member by a two-thirds vote of that member’s own chamber — the House votes on representatives, the Senate votes on senators, and no court, president, prosecutor, or voter back home can do it for them. In more than two...
by Epoch Edge Press | Oct 26, 2026 | Political Events
Executive privilege explained, in plain English: executive privilege is a president’s claimed power to keep certain White House communications confidential — candid advice from aides, internal deliberations, sensitive diplomatic and national security...
by Epoch Edge Press | Oct 22, 2026 | Political Events
Can a president fire an inspector general? Yes. For the several dozen inspectors general who are presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed, the president holds the removal power outright. But the power is fenced in: federal law requires the White House to notify...
by Epoch Edge Press | Oct 19, 2026 | Political Events
Who controls the National Guard depends entirely on which hat it is wearing that day. Most of the time, a state’s Guard answers to its governor, on state orders and state money. Under a second arrangement called Title 32, the governor keeps command but...
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