• luckyhunter@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “forced”, Franken made the choice to resign and in hindsight he absolutely shouldn’t have. If congress wants to impeach Bob and the senate wants to convict him and remove him, then great. “Calls for resignation” is chicken shit.

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      1 year ago

      He wouldn’t need to be impeached, Senators can be expelled on a 2/3 vote in the Senate and the House doesn’t need to be involved.

      If Schumer scheduled that vote this week, I think he would be toast.

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        1 year ago

        Oh, well that’s the same votes needed though. I just looked up if a senator can be impeached, and apparently one had, so maybe the house could start one if they wanted to? but since he’s a senator it wouldn’t be required. If they have the votes and feel that strongly about it though they should do it then. Have a backbone, take a vote and everyone lives with the fallout from it instead of this vague threatening “requesting resignation” B.S.

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      1 year ago

      No, he was forced. Schumer was going to take away all of his committee assignments and make him a pariah.

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        1 year ago

        That’s not forcing resignation, that’s leave with pay. MTG had her committee assignments taken away in 2021 too, she’s still there. Ilhan Omar was removed for the foreign affairs committee, she’s still there.

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          1 year ago

          Having your side of the senate shun you is absolutely forcing resignation. How is he supposed to do his job when none of them will talk to him?

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            1 year ago

            Like I said, leave with pay. They can’t stop him from voting or speaking on the floor though which is all their main jobs.

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              They absolutely can stop him from speaking on the floor. But true, they can’t stop him from voting- with Republicans. Which is one of the reasons to force him out.

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                1 year ago

                As someone else pointed out, he doesn’t even need to be impeached, the senate can vote to expel him with a 2/3rds vote. So why aren’t they voting if they feel so upset about it? There’s an established process to kick him out so if they want to set the precedent of kicking someone out based only on accusations before the trial resolves they should do it.

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                  1 year ago

                  Because Schumer needs to initiate that and he seems to be the only one who doesn’t want Menendez to resign. I don’t think you know how the Senate works.

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                    1 year ago

                    I know “Asking someone to resign” is bullshit and not anywhere in constitution, or parliamentary procedure of the senate.