Montanans Launch Recall of Senators Who Approved NDAA Military Detention. Merry Christmas, US Senate

[Major Hogwash]

36. Can you imagine what kind of Congress we would have if they let this crap happen?

The Senators would never get anything done because they would always be fighting off recall elections back home.

About 44 years ago, some knucklehead in Northern Idaho started a recall petition to recall Senator Frank Church.

From wikipedia --

In 1967, a recall campaign was waged against Church by Ron Rankin, a Republican county commissioner in Kootenai County in northern Idaho. Rankin unsuccessfully sued Idaho's secretary of state to accept recall petitions. The U.S. District Court for Idaho ruled that the state's recall laws did not apply to U.S. senators and that such a recall would violate the U.S. Constitution. Allan Shepard, Idaho's attorney general at the time, agreed with the court's decision.

"It must be pointed out that a United States senator is not a state officer but a federal officer whose position is created by Article I, Section I of the United States Constitution," Shepard wrote in a June 17, 1967, opinion for the secretary of state. "There seems to be no provision for canvassing the votes of a recall election of a United States senator."

Source -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Church#Political_career