Republican Conference rules block anyone who has been indicted for a charge with a sentence of two or more years from House leadership.
should take up the gavel. But the former president's legal troubles could block any efforts to bring him into the House's GOP leadership, according to Republican Conference rules.
McCarthy was voted out of the top post in a historic vote on Tuesday after eight members of his own caucus joinedin voting against him. After McCarthy announced that he would not seek the speakership again, Representative Troy Nehls, who had voted to keep McCarthy as speaker, said on X of the House Republican Conference rules for the 118th, who led the charge to oust McCarthy, has previously expressed his support for giving Trump the gavel.
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