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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBad news: I think we're stuck with Boebert
According to Article I, Section 5, second paragraph of the US Constitution, it requires a two-thirds majority of the house of Congress the member is a part of, to expel a Member from Congress.
The only feasible way I can see to get rid of her is to make Congress so un-fun she quits on her own. Assign her to one boring committee and no others, refuse to take up her bills and don't let her bring her gun into the building.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)There are only two Representatives who've ever been kicked out of Congress for committing crimes, Michael Myers in 1980 and James Traficant in 2002. They both had to be expelled from Congress. Myers got 30 "no" votes and Traficant one.
Randy "Duke" Cunningham, arguably the biggest crook in Congress of the last fifty years, resigned on his own.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)Under The Radar
(3,404 posts)elleng
(130,973 posts)(WEIRD to say this!) I hope repugs allow Liz Ch to retain her position in leadership.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)WVreaper
(621 posts)or your mother goes to Gitmo.
Voltaire2
(13,061 posts)It is pretty clear she took insurrectionists on reconnaissance tours Jan 5, and there is a lot of speculation that her mom is megaphone woman, a person of interest in the assault.
brush
(53,787 posts)insurrection cannot remain serving in Congress. If that "megaphone lady" is her mother, she's gone.
Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)Same with that Marjorie Greene. Just get these people the fuck out of office as fast as possible!
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Unless she shoots herself while cleaning her gun, the only viable paths to removal are to expel her, vote her out (which means someone even more extreme will take her place) or convince her to resign by making her life miserable.
And while it's not necessarily part of this discussion, I think it's a good time to revive a classic:
fearnobush
(3,960 posts)If they break that oath theyre gone
pwb
(11,276 posts)It should be done after trump. IMO.