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ORAL ARGUMENT HELD NOVEMBER 2, 2020
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
HON. KEVIN OWEN MCCARTHY, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v. Case No. 20-5240
HON. NANCY PELOSI, et al.,
Defendants.
MOTION TO WITHDRAW THE APPEAL OF 139 REPRESENTATIVE PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS
The following 139 Representative Plaintiffs-Appellants respectfully move
this Court to withdraw their appeal for the reasons stated below. The remaining twenty-one Representative Plaintiffs-Appellants and the five Constituent
Plaintiffs-Appellants continue to press their appeal, so the withdrawal of these
Plaintiffs-Appellants will not materially affect the Court’s consideration and disposition of this case.
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First, because the following twenty-seven Representative Plaintiffs-
Appellants are no longer Members of Congress, their claims challenging House
Resolution 965 (“H. Res. 965”)* are now moot. They are:
• Bradley Roberts Byrne, Alabama’s 1st Congressional District
• Theodore Scott Yoho, Florida’s 3rd Congressional District
• George Edward Bell Holding, North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District
• Kenneth Michael Conaway, Texas’s 11th Congressional District
• Vincent Ross Spano, Florida’s 15th Congressional District
• Paul Cook, California’s 8th Congressional District
• Bradley Mark Walker, North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District
• Peter Thomas King, New York’s 2nd Congressional District
• Denver Lee Riggleman III, Virginia’s 5th Congressional District
• Douglas Allen Collins, Georgia’s 9th Congressional District
• Gregory Richard Gianforte, Montana’s at-large Congressional District
• Gregory Paul Walden, Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District
• Robert William Bishop, Utah’s 1st Congressional District
* Although H. Res. 965 expired at the end of the 116th Congress, the 117th Congress has specified that H. Res. 965 “shall apply in the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress in the same manner as such resolution applied in the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress” except for minor alterations that are not pertinent here. H.R. Res. 8, 117th Cong. § 3(s) (2021) (enacted). 2
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• William Hose Flores Sr., Texas’s 17th Congressional District
• Steven Charles Watkins Jr., Kansas’s 2nd Congressional District
• Scott Randall Tipton, Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District
• David Phillip Roe, Tennessee’s 1st Congressional District
• Paul Mitchell III, Michigan’s 10th Congressional District
• Ralph Lee Abraham Jr., Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District
• William Ballard Hurd, Texas’s 23rd Congressional District
• Steven Arnold King, Iowa’s 4th Congressional District
• William Robert Woodall III, Georgia’s 7th Congressional District
• Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin’s 5th Congressional District
• Martha Kehres Roby, Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District
• Peter Graham Olson, Texas’s 22nd Congressional District
• Roger Wayne Marshall, Kansas’s 1st Congressional District
• Susan Lynn Wiant Brooks, Indiana’s 5th Congressional District
Second, the following 112 Representative Plaintiffs-Appellants have decided to withdraw their challenge to the House’s authorization of proxy voting. They are:
• Ronald Jack Wright, Texas’s 6th Congressional District
• Michael Clifton Burgess, Texas’s 26th Congressional District
• Lance Carter Gooden, Texas’s 5th Congressional District
• Gregory Francis Murphy, North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District
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• Glenn William Thompson Jr., Pennsylvania’s 15th Congressional District
• Earl Leroy Carter, Georgia’s 1st Congressional District
• Douglas Lee LaMalfa, California’s 1st Congressional District
• Lee Michael Zeldin, New York’s 1st Congressional District
• Michael Ray Turner, Ohio’s 10th Congressional District
• Robert Joseph Wittman, Virginia’s 1st Congressional District
• Frederick B. Keller, Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District
• David S. Schweikert, Arizona’s 6th Congressional District
• William Gregory Steube, Florida’s 17th Congressional District
• Gregory Joseph Pence, Indiana’s 6th Congressional District
• Guy Lorin Reschenthaler, Pennsylvania’s 14th Congressional District
• Michael Dennis Rogers, Alabama’s 3rd Congressional District
• Gary James Palmer, Alabama’s 6th Congressional District
• Barry Dean Loudermilk, Georgia’s 11th Congressional District
• William Leslie Johnson, Ohio’s 6th Congressional District
• Thomas Miller McClintock, California’s 4th Congressional District
• Christopher Douglas Stewart, Utah’s 2nd Congressional District
• Brad Robert Wenstrup, Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District
• Michael Keith Simpson, Idaho’s 2nd Congressional District
• Addison Graves Wilson Sr., South Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District 4
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• William Luetkemeyer, Missouri’s 3rd Congressional District
• Kenneth Stanton Calvert, California’s 42nd Congressional District
• Garland Hale Barr IV, Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District
• Timothy Floyd Burchett, Tennessee’s 2nd Congressional District
• John Robert Moolenaar, Michigan’s 4th Congressional District
• Ralph Warren Norman Jr., South Carolina’s 5th Congressional District
• Kevin Ray Hern, Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District
• Charles Joseph Fleischmann, Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District
• Devin Gerald Nunes, California’s 22nd Congressional District
• Louis Buller Gohmert Jr., Texas’s 1st Congressional District
• Robert Brian Gibbs, Ohio’s 7th Congressional District
• Timothy Lee Walberg, Michigan’s 7th Congressional District
• Morris Jackson Brooks, Alabama’s 5th Congressional District
• Ann Louise Wagner, Missouri’s 2nd Congressional District
• Brian Jeffery Mast, Florida’s 18th Congressional District
• Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District
• Robert Edward Latta, Ohio’s 5th Congressional District
• Alexander Xavier Mooney, West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District
• Daniel Alan Webster, Florida’s 11th Congressional District
• Theodore Paul Budd, North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District 5
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• Richard Wayne Allen, Georgia’s 12th Congressional District
• Kenneth Robert Buck, Colorado’s 4th Congressional District
• James Edward Banks, Indiana’s 3rd Congressional District
• Michael Joseph Bost, Illinois’s 12th Congressional District
• Ronald Gene Estes, Kansas’s 4th Congressional District
• Cathy Anne McMorris Rodgers, Washington’s 5th Congressional District
• Steven Ernst Stivers, Ohio’s 15th Congressional District
• Michael Garcia, California’s 25th Congressional District
• Stephen Allen Womack, Arkansas’s 3rd Congressional District
• Darin McKay LaHood, Illinois’ 18th Congressional District
• John Trent Kelly, Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District
• Randall Keith Weber, Texas’s 14th Congressional District
• James French Hill, Arkansas’s 2nd Congressional District
• Kevin Patrick Brady, Texas’s 8th Congressional District
• James Daniel Bishop, North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District
• Michael Patrick Guest, Mississippi’s 3rd Congressional District
• Carol Devine Miller, West Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District
• Neal Patrick Dunn, Florida’s 2nd Congressional District
• David Cheston Rouzer, North Carolina’s 7th Congressional District
• Harold Dallas Rogers, Kentucky’s 5th Congressional District 6
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• Robert Brown Aderholt, Alabama’s 4th Congressional District
• James Austin Scott, Georgia’s 8th Congressional District
• David Patrick Joyce, Ohio’s 14th Congressional District
• Donald Edwin Young, Alaska’s at-large Congressional District
• John Roger Williams, Texas’s 25th Congressional District
• William Patrick Huizenga, Michigan’s 2nd Congressional District
• William Troy Balderson, Ohio’s 12th Congressional District
• John Warren Bergman, Michigan’s 1st Congressional District
• George Joseph Kelly, Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional District
• Jason Thomas Smith, Missouri’s 8th Congressional District
• Jenniffer Aydin Gonzalez-Colon, Puerto Rico’s at-large Congressional
District
• Eric Alan Crawford, Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District
• Benjamin Lee Cline, Virginia’s 6th Congressional District
• Brian Philip Babin, Texas’s 36th Congressional District
• Kelly Michael Armstrong, North Dakota’s at-large Congressional District
• Jacqueline R. Walorski, Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District
• Steven McCarty Palazzo, Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District
• Paul Anthony Gosar, Arizona’s 4th Congressional District
• Virginia Ann Foxx, North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District 7
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• William Joseph Posey, Florida’s 8th Congressional District
• Samuel Bruce Graves Jr., Missouri’s 6th Congressional District
• Bruce Eugene Westerman, Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District
• Thomas P. Tiffany, Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District
• Nicholas Van Campen Taylor, Texas’s 3rd Congressional District
• Bryan George Steil, Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District
• Peter Allen Stauber, Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District
• John Henry Rutherford, Florida’s 4th Congressional District
• John Williams Rose, Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District
• Daniel Milton Newhouse, Washington’s 4th Congressional District
• Daniel P. Meuser, Pennsylvania’s 9th Congressional District
• David Frank Kustoff, Tennessee’s 8th Congressional District
• John Patrick Joyce, Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District
• Richard Lane Hudson, North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District
• Joseph Albert Hollingsworth III, Indiana’s 9th Congressional District
• Vicky Jo Hartzler, Missouri’s 4th Congressional District
• James Lee Hagedorn, Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District
• Steven Brett Guthrie, Kentucky’s 2nd Congressional District
• Glenn S. Grothman, Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional District
• Garret Neal Graves, Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District 8
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• Michael John Gallagher, Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District
• Thomas Earl Emmer Jr., Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District
• Scott Eugene DesJarlais, Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District
• Daniel Reed Crenshaw, Texas’s 2nd Congressional District
• John Rice Carter, Texas’s 31st Congressional District
• Larry Dean Bucshon, Indiana’s 8th Congressional District
• Gus Michael Bilirakis, Florida’s 12th Congressional District
• Donald John Bacon, Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District
• Jodey Cook Arrington, Texas’s 19th Congressional District
We contacted counsel for the Defendants-Appellees on January 15, 2021, asking whether they consented to this Motion. They have not yet provided a substantive response.
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Dated: January 19, 2021 Respectfully submitted,
s/Charles J. Cooper Elliot S. Berke Charles J. Cooper BERKE FARAH LLP Michael W. Kirk 1200 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Harold S. Reeves Washington, DC 20036 J. Joel Alicea (202) 517-0585 Steven J. Lindsay [email protected] COOPER & KIRK, PLLC 1523 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 Telephone: (202) 220-9600 Fax: (202) 220-9601 [email protected]
Counsel for Plaintiffs-Appellants
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CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
I hereby certify that the foregoing motion complies with the typeface
requirements of FED. R. APP. P. 32(a)(5) and the type-style requirements of
FED. R. APP. P. 32(a)(6). The motion is composed in a 14-point proportional
typeface, Times New Roman, and complies with the word-limit requirements of
FED. R. APP. P. 27(d)(2)(A) and D.C. Circuit Rule 27(a)(2), because it contains
1,198 words.
Dated January 19, 2021 s/Charles J. Cooper Charles J. Cooper Counsel for Plaintiffs-Appellants
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on January 19, 2021, I filed the foregoing document via
the appellate CM/ECF system of the United States Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia Circuit and that service will be accomplished by the appellate CM/ECF
system.
Dated January 19, 2021 s/Charles J. Cooper Charles J. Cooper Counsel for Plaintiffs-Appellants