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Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez will resign next month after he was found guilty on all 16 counts in a federal bribery and corruption trial. The New Jersey senator officially informed Gov. Phil ...
WASHINGTON — Democrats are turning up the heat on Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., as more senators call on him to resign, with some threatening to expel him after he was found guilty Tuesday on 16 ...
If Menendez resigns or is expelled, it would be left to Murphy, the Democratic governor, to fill the seat. Several prominent New Jersey Democrats have called for Rep. Andy Kim, who won his party’s nomination for the Senate seat, to be appointed. Kim, a third-term congressman, said Tuesday he would accept if offered the seat.
A defiant Sen. Bob Menendez declared Monday he would not resign and was prepared for his “biggest fight yet,” delivering his first public remarks after the U.S. attorney’s office in ...
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 ...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, however, has consistently declined to call on Menendez to resign, though he has said the senator’s conduct fell “way, way below” the standard of the office.
Gov. Phil Murphy said that if he does not resign, the Senate should expel Menendez. "Today's verdict finding Senator Bob Menendez guilty on 16 counts demonstrates that the Senator broke the law ...
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and other top Garden State Democrats are calling on Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez to resign – a sign of how quickly the senator’s political support may erode after ...