Max Miller said he could miss court hearings due to slim GOP House majority

A congressman telling a judge he might skip his own court hearings because the House majority is too thin to spare him for a day is the kind of detail that would sound made up if it weren't in a court filing. Max Miller filed this protection order himself. He's the one who wanted the case heard. Now he's the one asking for scheduling grace because Speaker whoever-it-is-this-week needs bodies on the floor.

There's a real problem buried in this, and it's not really about Miller. A House majority so narrow that a single member's absence gets cited as a legitimate excuse in a domestic dispute case tells you something about how thin the margins in this Congress actually are. Every vote matters so much that lawmakers are treating floor attendance like jury duty they can get excused from, except here it's the opposite, they're using it to get excused from actual jury-adjacent obligations.

Judges aren't obligated to care about anyone's whip count. If Miller wanted the CPO badly enough to file it, he can find time to show up for it, and if the House majority is genuinely so fragile that no member can miss a single session, that's an indictment of how business is being run, not a legitimate scheduling defense. Courts should treat this request the way they'd treat it from anyone else with a day job: politely, and with a hard no.