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RockRaven

(15,062 posts)
1. Takes a 2/3 vote of House to expel her...
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 12:48 AM
Jan 2021

Obviously with Dems in control of agenda and such it could be brought to the point of voting...

RockRaven

(15,062 posts)
6. Oh, that's easy. It's party over country -- but the thing is... that's in line with the voters who
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:10 AM
Jan 2021

elected them, and will do so again next time.

RockRaven

(15,062 posts)
7. The district cannot force the House to keep her, but they sure as heck can elect her again and
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:14 AM
Jan 2021

thereby force the House to kick her out again (not that they will the first time in reality, just hypothetically speaking).

In the 1920s the House repeatedly refused to seat a Rep who had been convicted under the Sedition Act for writing in his newspaper that the US should stay out of WWI.

Mr.Bill

(24,348 posts)
8. Sometimes I think we should leave her there on display
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:18 AM
Jan 2021

so the whole world can see today's republican party for what it is.

But the potential for her promoting violence tells me that's not a good idea.

Bayard

(22,199 posts)
9. What about criminal charges?
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 02:28 AM
Jan 2021

She's threatening the Speaker of the House, and others. Sedition maybe? Rabble rousing?

enough

(13,267 posts)
10. Thanks for just calling her GREENE, like any other Representative.
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 10:12 AM
Jan 2021

When people use her whole name, or worse yet, her initials, it gives her an aura of importance that she shouldn’t have.

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