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Samrob

(4,298 posts)
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 09:13 AM Jun 2022

Can a Senator be removed from office. A few are eligible IMHO.

https://www.senate.gov/reference/Index/Impeachment.htm

"If a federal official commits a crime or otherwise acts improperly, the House of Representatives may impeach—formally charge—that official. If the official subsequently is convicted in a Senate impeachment trial, he is removed from office."
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Response to Samrob (Original post)

piddyprints

(14,648 posts)
2. The issue is
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 09:17 AM
Jun 2022

"convicted in a Senate impeachment trial" which would never happen with all the MAGAts in the Senate. After all, they didn't care at all what TFG did and apparently still don't.

FBaggins

(26,760 posts)
3. Senators are not "officers" subject to impeachment
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 09:17 AM
Jun 2022

Each chamber has the ability to expel a member with 2/3 backing the expulsion… but impeachment isn’t an option.

MineralMan

(146,331 posts)
4. Since removal by the Senate is unlikely, and impeachment is not possible,
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 09:17 AM
Jun 2022

the easiest way is to vote for someone else in their next election. Ron Johnson will be getting that treatment this year.

Buh-bye, Ron...

MarineCombatEngineer

(12,449 posts)
5. A Senator cannot be impeached,
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 09:22 AM
Jun 2022

but they can be expelled.

https://www.quora.com/Can-a-senator-be-impeached-and-removed-from-office

Can a US senator or congressman be impeached?
SECTION 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

The Senate has concluded that members of Congress (Representatives and Senators) are not "civil officers" for purposes of impeachment.

Congressmen & women are expelled, not impeached.


However, a 2/3rs majority is needed for that to happen, and there is no way in hell that's going to happen with this current Senate.

Amishman

(5,559 posts)
11. up, still takes 2/3rds in the Senate
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 11:09 AM
Jun 2022

with ain't happening.

I have better chances of striking oil in my back yard.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
6. If a Senator is removed from office it will be by expulsion, although a Senator was once impeached
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 09:27 AM
Jun 2022

See: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/expulsion_cases/Blount_expulsion.htm

Despite Blount's absence, his impeachment trial began in the Senate on December 17, 1798, and quickly focused on the Senate's right to try an expelled senator. In a narrow vote, the Senate defeated a resolution that asserted William Blount was an impeachable officer. In this vote, the Senate failed to make clear whether its decision stemmed from a belief that no senator could be impeached or from the belief that someone who ceased to hold a "civil office" also ceased to be impeachable.

Ocelot II

(115,858 posts)
7. The linked reference to impeachment has to do with the Senate's role in the process, but
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 09:27 AM
Jun 2022

Senators themselves can't be impeached. Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution says: "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Since the Federalist Papers noted that the power of impeachment serves as a check on the executive and judicial branches, "civil officers" has not been interpreted in modern times as including members of Congress. The Senate can expel its own members; otherwise they can be gotten rid of only by voting them out of office. The Blount situation referenced above occurred while the Senate was in the process of expelling him on its own and wouldn't be used now as precedent for impeaching a senator.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
8. At the very least they should be referred to the Ethics committees in both houses
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 09:28 AM
Jun 2022

Starting with Ron Johnson. Chris Coons chairs the senate ethics committee

Lovie777

(12,329 posts)
9. mcturtle could ask him to step down . . .
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 09:44 AM
Jun 2022

but all he cares about is power to fuck up the USA even more.

Sneederbunk

(14,303 posts)
10. Senator John Breckinridge KY was expelled for being a traitor in 1861.
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 10:54 AM
Jun 2022

He was former VP under Buchanan and subsequently became a general in Confederate Army.

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