[Colonel Kangaroo]

If Franken goes, Moore will be kicked out also. The Franken case may help Moore in the short run with the voters of Alabama, but it provides the perfect rationale (excuse) to evict him from the Senate once elected.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I vaguely remember Melanie talking about it on the Lee Rogers Show. It certainly wasn’t about sex.

[editor-surveyor]

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When the 17th amendment made the senate elective, it also essentially eliminated its ability to reject an elected senator.

Impeachment for misdeeds in office is essentially the only way.
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[reformedliberal]

If Franken goes, Moore will be kicked out also. The Franken case may help Moore in the short run with the voters of Alabama, but it provides the perfect rationale (excuse) to evict him from the Senate once elected.
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As I understand it, there is precedent of legal standing that such an eviction can only be on Constitutional grounds. I believe electoral fraud might be an example of permissible grounds....which puts the target right back on Franken.

[atc23]

If Franken goes, Moore will be kicked out also. The Franken case may help Moore in the short run with the voters of Alabama, but it provides the perfect rationale (excuse) to evict him from the Senate once elected

That would be true except for one thing - there is photographic evidence of the actual crime in Franken's case and in Moore's case . . . . .

we have a forged autograph and no other evidence but heresay.

BIG DIFFERENCE