Wed Jan 13, 2021, 06:50 PM

Moostache (9,847 posts)

Can the senators who voted to NOT accept the will of the people be excluded in Senate trial?

There are 9 co-seditionists that voted to support objections to either or both AZ and PA totals.

If they are excluded from the Senate as jurors, then the 100 becomes 91. If Perdue is also excluded due to having lost his seat that may be 90 (or still 91, but with Ossoff instead of Perdue)...

So 2/3rd majority of senators would no longer be 67, it would be 61. That would lower the threshold of conviction significantly and make removal from office (or simply stripping the right to ever again hold ANY office or trust under the United States) ... which might be the best outcome we are going to see?

Do I have that wrong or twisted?

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Can the senators who voted to NOT accept the will of the people be excluded in Senate trial? (Original post)	Moostache	Jan 2021	OP
Tuberville might not be there to cast a vote	exboyfil	Jan 2021	#1
house members that voted yes will be excluded from the senate trial because they are not senators	Groundhawg	Jan 2021	#2
LOL.	maxsolomon	Jan 2021	#6
IDK but they should be recused.	Bev54	Jan 2021	#3
No they cannot be excluded	onenote	Jan 2021	#4
The EC objection process is in the Constitution. It's not Sedition.	maxsolomon	Jan 2021	#5

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 07:02 PM

exboyfil (17,735 posts)

1. Tuberville might not be there to cast a vote

He was in collusion with Rudy G. to slow the vote to set up a specific timetable.

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Response to Moostache (Original post)

Wed Jan 13, 2021, 07:02 PM

Groundhawg (424 posts)

2. house members that voted yes will be excluded from the senate trial because they are not senators

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 07:23 PM

maxsolomon (31,465 posts)

6. LOL.

Good point; welcome to DU.

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 07:08 PM

Bev54 (9,108 posts)

3. IDK but they should be recused.

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 07:14 PM

onenote (41,041 posts)

4. No they cannot be excluded

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Response to Moostache (Original post)

Wed Jan 13, 2021, 07:22 PM

maxsolomon (31,465 posts)

5. The EC objection process is in the Constitution. It's not Sedition.

They were within their rights to object. It was bullshit, of course, but Dems have objected previously, too: in 2000, 2004, & 2016.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/objections-to-a-presidential-certification-vote-is-not-rare-dems-did-the-same-to-trump

It's a difference in degree, not kind.

Now, did they incite Insurrection? Different question.

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