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To: mdittmar

when this is all over, Feinstein and her little Hawaiian lapdog both deserve censure by the senate.


10 posted on 09/24/2018 7:10:51 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: JohnBrowdie

Censure? They should be EXPELLED from the Senate.


35 posted on 09/24/2018 7:26:29 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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United States Senate: Expulsion and Censure

Article I, Section 5, of the United States Constitution provides that "Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member."

Since 1789, the Senate has expelled only fifteen of its entire membership. Of that number, fourteen were charged with support of the Confederacy during the Civil War. In several other cases, the Senate considered expulsion proceedings but either found the member not guilty or failed to act before the member left office. In those cases, corruption was the primary cause of complaint.

In the entire course of the Senate's history, only four members have been convicted of crimes. They were: Joseph R. Burton (1905), John Hipple Mitchell (1905), Truman H. Newberry (1920), and Harrison Williams (1981). Newberry's conviction was later overturned. Mitchell died. Burton, Newberry, and Williams resigned before the Senate could act on their expulsion.

40 posted on 09/24/2018 7:32:51 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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