When I looked this up it seemed like everyone who had been expelled had been expelled over some kind of crime? So using 2/3 to expel someone for incapacity would be permissible but uncharted territory?
When I looked this up it seemed like everyone who had been expelled had been expelled over some kind of crime? So using 2/3 to expel someone for incapacity would be permissible but uncharted territory?
ThereтАЩs no particular standard for expulsion, although given that the Constitution lumps expulsion in with disciplinary measures and the process in both chambers starts with their respective ethics committees, it does seem unlikely that they would expel her for simple incapacity.
I think that's accurate. Senators all want to hold on to power forever and the Republic be damned. Quite literally now. So they won't do it when it's needed in case it's done to them later. And there's a lot done in House and Senate that is not the spirit or letter of the Constitution as far as I can tell.
(I also think it's possible for Calif to recall her for cause but expensive and probably lacking the will.)
When I looked this up it seemed like everyone who had been expelled had been expelled over some kind of crime? So using 2/3 to expel someone for incapacity would be permissible but uncharted territory?
ThereтАЩs no particular standard for expulsion, although given that the Constitution lumps expulsion in with disciplinary measures and the process in both chambers starts with their respective ethics committees, it does seem unlikely that they would expel her for simple incapacity.
I think that's accurate. Senators all want to hold on to power forever and the Republic be damned. Quite literally now. So they won't do it when it's needed in case it's done to them later. And there's a lot done in House and Senate that is not the spirit or letter of the Constitution as far as I can tell.
(I also think it's possible for Calif to recall her for cause but expensive and probably lacking the will.)
No, members of Congress canтАЩt be recalled. Resignation, defeat in an election, and expulsion are the only ways out while sheтАЩs still got a pulse.