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To: SkyDancer
Well you can’t impeach a congress person, you can do a recall though. :)

As to removal by recall, the United States Constitution does not provide for nor authorize the recall of United States officers such as Senators, Representatives, or the President or Vice President, and thus no Member of Congress has ever been recalled in the history of the United States. The recall of Members was considered during the time of the drafting of the federal Constitution in 1787, but no such provisions were included in the final version sent to the states for ratification, and the specific drafting and ratifying debates indicate an express understanding of the framers and ratifiers that no right or power to recall a Senator or Representative in Congress exists under the Constitution.

Source.

54 posted on 07/04/2017 3:55:47 PM PDT by upchuck (RIP, Democrat Party, 1776-2017, Protested itself to death. h/t DarkOne)
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To: upchuck

Since the Constitution is silent on the matter, seems like that would be a Tenth Amendment issue, meaning it’s up the either the individual states, or the people thereof to craft, ratify, and execute such an action.


55 posted on 07/04/2017 4:20:26 PM PDT by Sylvester McMonkey McBean
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To: upchuck

There was an argument about that a while back where someone called out for either Maxine Waters or some other congress woman to be impeached and she yelled back that she couldn’t be impeached whereupon someone wrote that she could be recalled or something to that effect. I was just passing that on.


62 posted on 07/04/2017 4:33:55 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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