Posted on 02/09/2010 4:37:33 AM PST by kingattax
TRENTON -- Conservative activists affiliated with the national Tea Party movement are hoping to unseat U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.).
The group, called the Committee to Recall Senator Robert Menendez, is going to court after its petition to recall the senator was denied by former Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells last month.
The Tea Partiers, part of a Sussex County group supporting limited government and opposed to Menendez’s stance on healthcare reform, are contesting the decision in a state appeals court.
Dan Silberstein, a lawyer for the group, said the legal battle is over which constitution — the U.S. or state — should apply to residents who want to recall their senators.
"We essentially have a New Jersey constitution that says we can do it," said Silberstein.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Yeah, but that’s not what’s important. It’s WHO you want to replace this liberal with that will make the difference...
if i remember correctly, doesn’t NJ have a GOP governor now ?
Menendez’ first job out of law school was bag man for the Hudson county boss. He has worked his way up, now he is the boss. The Senate is his part time job.
Yep we do! The sticking point here is that recalls in NJ need so many signatures in such a short period of time, that it’s nearly impossible to get the job done.
The powers in Trenton have seen to it that a successful recall will never happen in this State.
Well, we sort of had a moral victory in NJ. Everyone expected Lautenberg to resign so Corzine could appoint himself and that never happened. If we could only get the governor to reduce social spending and get those on it to emigrate to NY or Mass we would be in business.
While it would be great to replace incumbents with a solid conservative, I think there is some value in just throwing out the bums.
Maybe those that are left will straighten up. I will vote against Baron Hill and Evan Bayh regardless of who runs against them.
LOL Hudson County really DOES pay better than Washington!
Senator Prodded Fed to Aid Ailing Bank From Home State
this crook needs to be indicted and spend some time in state-funded housing.
While I do not disagree, there is more value in stopping this moderate/rino insanity! Might not be able to do it in the NE, but the rest of the country better, and conservative need to regain control in the republican party or NOTHING will change.
Recall of Legislators and the Removal of Members of Congress from Office
The term of office established in the United States Constitution for a United States Senator is six years, and for a Representative in Congress, two years.1 Under the Constitution and congressional practice, Members of Congress may have their services ended prior to the normal expiration of their constitutional terms of office by their resignation, death, or by action of the House of Congress in which they sit by way of an “expulsion,”2 or by a finding that a subsequent public office accepted by a Member is “incompatible” with congressional office (and that the Member has thus vacated his seat in Congress).3 Although considered in the Federal Convention of 1787, there was never a provision adopted in the Constitution for the “recall” of Members of Congress, and thus no Member has ever been recalled in the history of the United States. Individual States have never had the authority, and thus could not have “reserved” such power, to unilaterally change the terms and conditions of service of federal officials agreed upon and created in the federal Constitution.4 This report discusses briefly the manner in which a Member of Congress may be removed from office by “expulsion,” and then examines the issue of recall of legislators.
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