Former President Donald Trump is displayed on a screen during the fourth hearing on the Jan. 6 investigation in the Cannon House Office Building on June 21, 2022. Al Drago/Pool via Getty Images
In all parliamentary democracies with legislatures that are descended from the British “Mother of Parliaments” in Westminster, there’s a rule against what’s called “unparliamentary language.” Members are allowed to criticize and even insult one another, but only within certain limits.
James Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The author of “Honor: A History,” he is a movie critic for The American Spectator and the media critic for The New Criterion.
