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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 ...
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."
Members of the United States Senate declared not entitled to their seat (10 P) Pages in category "Expelled United States senators" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Santos was expelled with a vote of 311 to 114, with 105 of his fellow Republicans voting in favor. ... The Senate process for expulsion is quite murky and no senator has actually been expelled ...
It takes two-thirds of the Senate, or 67 votes, to expel a member. Since 1789, the Senate has expelled only 15 members, 14 of them for their role in the Confederacy. The last expulsion occurred in ...
The Senate will vote Feb. 2 to expel Sen. Katrina Robinson, D-Memphis, following an ethics hearing and her conviction on federal fraud charges.
The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 5) [1] gives the House of Representatives the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. Expulsion of a Representative is rare: only six members of the House have been expelled in its history. Three of those six were expelled in 1861 for joining the Confederate States of America. [2]
What is certain is that expulsion hasn't happened in more than 160 years. The last such vote was in 1862, according to the Senate, and by far most of the 15 senators who were expelled were booted ...