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The United States Constitution gives the Senate the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. [1] This is distinct from the power over impeachment trials and convictions that the Senate has over executive and judicial federal officials: the Senate ruled in 1798 that senators could not be impeached, but only expelled, while debating the impeachment trial of William Blount, who had already ...
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., on Tuesday reiterated his call for the expulsion of his colleague Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., from Congress after a federal grand jury filed a second superseding ...
Since 1789, the Senate has expelled only 15 members, 14 of them for their role in the Confederacy. The last expulsion occurred in 1862, when a group of senators were removed for supporting the ...
Democrats are ramping up the pressure on Sen. Bob Menendez after the guilty verdict in his bribery trial. Night 2 of the Republican National Convention kicks off.
Expulsion is the most serious form of disciplinary action that can be taken against a member of Congress. [1] The United States Constitution (Article I, Section 5, Clause 2) 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."
Posted an anime video on social media depicting himself committing violence against Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden. [10] [11] 2023 Adam Schiff: Democratic California 213–209 (with 6 "present") Making allegations regarding Russian collusion in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the first impeachment of ...
Sen. John Fetterman is the first senator to say he supports a vote to expel embattled Sen. Bob Menendez following his indictment on bribery charges.
New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez on Tuesday became one of just a handful of U.S. senators to be convicted of a crime while in office — and the first ever found guilty of being an agent of a ...