It takes a 2/3 vote of the members present to expel a member. No problem. They will prevent enough GOP members from entering the chamber so they get their 2/3.
They demand a war and blaming it on us. Wait for the mandated 100 days of complete lock down.
The gates of hell are bursting with the pressure.
Then be prepared for the ramifications, congressmen.
What a puke fest that is.
Either house may vote to expel a member. However it takes 2/3 majority to do it. Unless House and Senate Republicans cave, that’s not going to happen. In the case of House seats, there must be a special election called to fill the vacant seat, so the expelled House member can simply run for office again.
Most members who objected come from very Republican districts and should easily win re-election. The House could vote to refuse to seat them, but SCOTUS ruled in the case of expelled Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, D-crook, he had to be seated.
If a Senator were expelled, the governor can appoint a replacement. I’d assume a Republican governor would simply reappoint the expelled Senator.
Representative Cori Bush, who led ‘mostly peaceful’ protestors into the gated St. Louis neighbor resulting the the felony arrest of homeowners who dared resist them, has been in Congress less than a week. She might be a member of the Squad, but she’s not a mover and shaker quite yet.
“Baseless pretext” to you is obvious signs of fraud to me and to those who objected. What does this make the dems who objected in 2016?
Try it and see what a real insurrection looks like.
Sounds like they’ve been looking at Hong Kong and seeing what they’ve done. Over the years HK has disqualified elected officials because they didn’t say the oath of office correctly or they said something that would make them a threat to China.
I am shocked! Shocked! That a Bush would propose such an authoritarian measure. For an encore, he will want to attack Iraq again.
They want to unite the country?
If they expel duly elected members of Congress, they will bring a real insurrection and it will be armed.
Maybe they are that stupid.
If they do it they will need to repeal the 2nd amendment first.
They didn’t have a right to bring a Constitutional procedure which the Congress in fact followed because that is the law?
And they wonder why people would storm the Capitol?
This is to make sure that none of those patriot upstarts tries to resurrect our now dead Constitution.
Yes, now the left will get rid of anyone who said they believe that the 2020 election was fraudulent, which it was. There were numerous people who spoke out against the rigged election and now Pelosi and Schumer must destroy rhem along with Trump and anyone else who believes anything other than what Nancy Pelosi says. What a vindictive, vile person she is.
The 2020 election belongs to satan.
I don’t have to assume she won’t. I know 100% that she won’t. What foolishness.
Definitely planned ahead of time by the politicians. They left it all wide open to create chaos.
Well, what decent person would want t9 be a 0art of that detestable, tyrannical “institution” anyway? Our people should leave it...as we should divorce ourselves from this demonic government.
They can’t be expelled. They were elected by their states.
Mighty fascist of them.
Well, here we see what an actual war on democracy looks like. They want to remove duly elected representatives of the people because they followed entirely Constitutional recourses to demand debate over election fraud. One would be hard pressed to find a better example in modern America of trying to destroy democracy than a tyrannical move like this violating our system of government as revenge against legitimately elected political opponents.
Following the Constitution and laws is not violating oaths to the Constitution, but removing elected officials solely for political reasons definitely is. It is amazing how open the Dems have been in their aggressive moves toward full-scale oppression of dissent and the establishment of authoritarian one-party rule lately. At least they aren’t hiding it.