The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a legal challenge by GOP lawmakers on COVID-19-related proxy voting rules that were set by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for House representatives. The rules, which were set up in May 2020, allow members of the House to serve as proxies for colleagues in isolation due to COVID-19, the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, or who were otherwise not able to cast votes on the floor. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other GOP members filed a challenge with the high court to reverse a lower court decision in July 2021 on the rules. At the time, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia agreed that courts don’t have jurisdiction to weigh in on the House’s rules and procedures, affirming another lower court decision that reached a similar conclusion. The Pelosi-backed proxy …