Can Justin Amash actually run for speaker of the House?

Published November 27, 2022 12:00am ET



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There’s been some chatter over the past year from some quarters of the House GOP about making an outsider speaker when Republicans assume the majority in the new Congress, prompting the question: Can they even do that?

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