Democrats call for Sen. Hawley to resign, resolution to expel members of Congress

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CBS 13 KRCG

The Missouri Democratic Party is among others calling for Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to resign or be expelled from Congress, a rare form of punishment that has only been used a handful of times in the nation's history.

Representative Cori Bush on Monday took to Twitter to announce she had introduced a resolution to expel members of Congress who tried to overturn the election. Expulsion is the most severe form of punishment for members of Congress and, as mandated in the Constitution, it requires a two-thirds majority vote.

Since the nation's inception, the Senate has expelled only 15 members, 14 of which were expelled during the Civil War for supporting the Confederacy. The punishment has only been used five times in the House in more than two centuries.

Rep. Bush said, "the resolution would investigate and expel GOP members of Congress who attempted to overturn the election and incited a white supremacist attack."

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[SheltieLover]

1. Ty, Dems!

[LiberalFighter]

2. Personally, I don't think they need to vote to expel him.

They should identify him as engaging in an insurrection and Amendment 14 Section 3 requires him to be denied the right to be a member of Congress.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. That's my reading of it too.

The unambiguous amendment provides a means of reinstatement with a 2/3 majority, but doesn't mention an expulsion vote, so the means is probably to be invented. Just go with what works and let the courts - the Court - rule. But the optics, the fallout, inside and outside Congress, will need management. The courtesy of an up or down simple majority vote might be nice.

[pecosbob]

4. To the best of my knowledge there is no qualifier in the Constitution regarding expulsion

The 14th was a Reconstruction amendment passed after the war was over and codified the disqualification and provided for the possible re-admittance of repentant insurrectionists. So it really doesn't govern expulsions per say.

My knowledge is that those expelled from the Senate and House had been absent having assumed commands in the Confederate Army or State Militias and had physically taken up arms against the government. No contemporary records that I have seen show particulars on any of the votes to expel, and as none is specified within the Constitution we have to assume that that the expulsions were conducted under the standing body rules of each house at the time.