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In reply to the discussion: Mr. Gaetz, please, absent yourself. [View all]NotASurfer
(2,150 posts)26. If it's criminal, House members can be expelled by 2/3 majority vote
Rep. Trafficant was expelled in 2002 for accepting bribes from his friendly neighborhood crime syndicate. Rep. Myers, 1980, for accepting a bribe to lobby on behalf of a foreign national for asylum in the US. And a slew of Representatives who backed Confederate secession during the Civil war.
Only applied in extreme cases where the Representative is looking at criminal prosecution and should, if they have any shreds of conscience left, resign. It feels like there ought to be some applicability of the first two with respect to a few GOPsters in office today.
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His weird face always reminds me of this goofy guy from "Full Metal Jacket"
NurseJackie
Nov 2019
#29
Don't tell anyone but I looked like a mix of Gaetz and D'Onofrio for about 20 years.
NightWatcher
Nov 2019
#40
That can't be done, because of the Speech or Debate Clause in the Constitution.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Nov 2019
#7