WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to House rules allowing proxy voting, a system adopted during the Covid pandemic.

McCarthy asked the high court last September to overturn the proxy voting rules, which allow lawmakers to cast votes through a colleague so that they don’t need to be physically present in the House chamber.

Republican lawmakers have taken advantage of the process themselves, which took effect in May 2020.

(I do think once the pandemic has ended the rules should be changed back.)