The House thought Senators could be impeached, but the Senate decided that they couldn’t. Impeachment of members of Congress is unnecessary, because each House has the power to expel a member.
Sounds like the (dis)honorable Mr. Blount was a relative of Harry Reid. Same M.O.
“The House thought Senators could be impeached, but the Senate decided that they couldn’t.”
That is not entirely accurate. Some of the Senators voted to dismiss the impeachment because they believed the Senate lost jurisdiction after the Senate expelled Blount and Blount remained at large in defiance of an arrest warrant. Although some of the Senators voted to dismiss the impeachment arguing Senators were not civil officers in the meaning of the Constitution, their motive was not precedent because the other Senators made the decision instead on the basis Blount was no longer a Member of the Senate. Furthermore, the decision to impeach Senator Blount was a precedent established by the 5th Congress, while the trail was deliberately postponed to obtain more favorable treatment by the 6th Congress, who then failed to establish a precedent because of the divided and inconclusive basis of its vote to dismiss the impeachment trial of a defendant the Senate had failed to take into custody before the Senate tribunal..
“The 1797 impeachment of Senator William Blount of Tennessee stalled on the grounds that the Senate lacked jurisdiction over him. Because, in a separate action unrelated to the impeachment procedure, the Senate had already expelled Blount, the lack of jurisdiction may have been either because Blount was no longer a Senator, or because Senators are not civil officers of the federal government and therefore not subject to impeachment.”