Fetterman backs a vote to expel Menendez from Senate

[malthaussen]

4. Isn't that assuming he's guilty?

Okay, okay, I am not an infant. Mr Menendez is a New Jersey senator, of course he's corrupt. But I'm not really comfortable with the idea that someone is considered guilty before he has his day in court, or what are our courts for?

It's alleged that even the false claim that Hillary Clinton was being "investigated" weakened her support, even though we all know she never did nuthin'. If people are expelled or shunned just because they're being "investigated," or even if they have been indicted, it takes the whole Caesar's Wife thing to absurd extremes, IMO.

One might ask what, then, I think about Donald Trump's indictments not stopping him from running for President. I will stick to my principles. Indictment should not disqualify him from candidacy, and until it is proven in a court of law that he raised insurrection against the United States, the 14th Amendment should not apply (but should after he is). To do otherwise is to substitute the rule of rumor and reputation for the rule of law. One shouldn't just drop principles when they become inconvenient. The counter-argument is that his case is "different," and it is not without merit. Especially as the idiot has as much as openly admitted guilt numerous times on record. Fortunately or un, it is not up to me to decide.

-- Mal