Illiberalism
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, 2023
Fig. 1. Photograph credited to Office of Congressman Kevin McCarthy, date inconsistent with title but given as November 9, 2022, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Tina Nguyen, “War & Scalise,” Puck, October 11, 2023, https://puck.news/war-scalise/
Kristina Peterson and Siobhan Hughes, “Republicans Nominate Steve Scalise for House Speaker Over Jim Jordan,” Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/politics/republican-speaker-vote-jim-jordan-stevescalise-2419cbf6
Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell, and Jacqueline Alemany, “Republicans fail to coalesce around speaker choice, leaving House in limbo,” Washington Post, October 11, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/11/steve-scalise-jim-jordan-house-speaker/
Lauren Fedor, “Steve Scalise withdraws from US House Speaker race,” Financial Times, October 12, 2023, https://www.ft.com/content/b3bca5a5-789e-4afb-ad75-684b7cba8a79
Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell with Tobi Raji, “Scalise’s potentially fatal mistake,” Washington Post, October 12, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/12/scalises-potentially-fatal-mistake/
Siobhan Hughes et al., “Jim Jordan Wins GOP Nod for Speaker, but Hurdles Remain,” Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/politics/house-republicans-pursue-new-speaker-plans-after-steve-scalise-exits-race-8ec48b57