Even if Jones loses, he sorta wins cause the GOP Establishment will refuse to seat Moore
Why? He is innocent of all the accusations.
NYT’s
Doug Jones Democrat 19,408 53.3%
Roy Moore Republican 16,657 45.7
3% reporting (59 of 2,220 precincts)
They’ll have one heck of a hard time doing so if they try.....
There is a clear ‘constitutional distinction’ between ‘expulsion’ and ‘exclusion’.
‘Exclusion’ would occur if the Senate refused to allow Moore to take his seat,...... whereas ‘expulsion’ would be by process of the Senate after Moore took his oath of office.
The Supreme Court in Powell case held that the Qualifications of Members Clause of Article I pertaining to the House of Representatives is an exclusive list of qualifications, and that Congress does not have the constitutional authority to develop its own qualifications additionally to those specified. ...........In other words, Congress in each House may only ‘exclude’ a duly elected member for reasons actually enumerated in that clause.
Article 1, Section 3.3 provides the qualifications of senators and says in its entirety:
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
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