Timeline for How can a Senator be removed from office during a term for medical reasons?
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| Jan 17, 2019 at 8:44 | answer | added | RDoctorD | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 15:57 | answer | added | T.E.D. | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 15:06 | comment | added | Cos Callis | If there were (for instance) a provision (law) which states that a governor (any governor) may report to the President pro tempore of the Senate that "Senator Smith" is in a coma and unable to perform his duties. etc... etc... It is not at all 'In conflict" (the provisions may not exist, but if they did it would answer the question) | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 14:57 | comment | added | Adam Davis | "Is there a mechanism for ... the State ... to remove a sitting senator for medical cause against his will." is somewhat in conflict with " I am looking for a general answer ... for any senator" - Asking for an answer that provides details for all the states is too large for a single question. Consider either 1) making this question specific to McCain and his state or 2) removing the request for information for the states, restricting wholly to the federal level. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 14:54 | answer | added | Adam Davis | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 14:36 | comment | added | Cos Callis | @emory & RBarryYoung: This conversation grows ever more tangential. I have opened a new question: politics.stackexchange.com/q/30476/7803 | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 14:12 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | @emory Further, in the Civil War the senate ruled that secession of a state was equivalent to resignation by those senators. AFAIK, all of the other methods you mention still either require expulsion, or are ruled as effective resignations. Because there are still only 3 ways to vacate an congressional office. I can think of only one other obscure possibility (annulment) but it has never happened and seems even less likely today. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 14:04 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | @Emory Congress determined some time ago that members of congress are not subject to impeachment under the constitution and will not do so. The Supreme Court has never contradicted this interpretation by them. Further, being convicted of a crime does not automatically vacate your office, you still have to be formally removed (expelled). So the 3 means I mentioned are, as currently interpreted, the only ways for a congressional office to be vacated. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 13:00 | comment | added | Cos Callis | @emory and the Constitution clearly enumerates that the VP is subject to impeachment.-------------- The Constitution, Article II, Section 4: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 12:56 | comment | added | Cos Callis | @emory 1. Blout was not "impeached" (the house merely voted to hold impeachment hearings). 2. The law does not depend upon your beliefs, strong or otherwise, what I was seeking was evidence that impeachment is, or is not, on that list. At this point I am unconvinced that the House has ANY authority over a sitting Senator. I expect that any attempt by the House to proceed with an actual impeachment (regardless of the circumstances) would be 'out of order'. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 11:04 | comment | added | emory | @CosCallis William Blount is the only Senator (to date) to have been impeached. The Senate did not convict Senator Blount. Instead, they expelled him from the Senate. Regardless your logic is faulty. There has been zero instances of a Vice President being impeached. Nonetheless I strongly believe that is an available option. I believe the outcomes I listed are possible, but extremely unlikely - and should only be considered in the context of an exhaustive list. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 10:28 | comment | added | Cos Callis | @emory, can you find an example (or other documentation) for the impeachment of a senator? I don't believe that is an available option. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 3:54 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/986452856113950725 | ||
| Apr 17, 2018 at 22:59 | comment | added | emory | @RBarryYoung you might be right, but other possibilities include impeachment and conviction, voluntary renunciation of citizenship, involuntary deprivation of citizenship (for a naturalized citizen Senator convicted of lying wrt their citizenship application). I suspect if a State left the Union with permission of Congress then its Senators would be involuntarily shown the door (or otherwise ceased to be a state). I anticipate that these things will never happen. | |
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| Apr 17, 2018 at 21:38 | comment | added | ohwilleke♦ | @AzorAhai There are related precedents that hold that state constitutions limiting the terms of their federal senators and representatives are unconstitutional. This reasoning extends equally strongly to state recalls. | |
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| Apr 17, 2018 at 21:12 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | I heard once that some states have constitutions that give themselves the power to recall their Senators/Reps, but it's never been tried. | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 20:21 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | AFAIK, Expulsion, Resignation, and Death are the only means for a member of Congress to leave office before their term is expired. Normally a respected member of Congress is expected to resign if they cannot fulfill their duties. | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 19:49 | history | edited | Cos Callis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2018 at 19:20 | answer | added | user9389 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 19:13 | answer | added | Michael Benjamin | timeline score: 18 | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 19:11 | answer | added | ohwilleke♦ | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 18:19 | history | asked | Cos Callis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |