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Rep. George Santos expelled from Congress on bipartisan vote (wapo.st)

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

some leading members of GOP leadership voicing concerns about setting a precedent of ousting a lawmaker who had not been convicted of a crime.

The thing about ethics rules is that they are more expansive than legal rules. If you are just going to defer to the legal system, why have any ethical rules at all?

There are all sorts of things that are awful, but still legal. If a Representative marched down 5th Avenue in a literal swastika-and-iron-cross nazi parade, I would hope they would be expelled, despite being a legal (though reprehensible) exercise in free speech.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

The same GOP tried to impeach Biden based on conspiracy theories they made up themselves

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

And because that's how they did it, they find it perfectly normal and natural to say that ANY action against trump whatsoever must be based on made up lies.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Can't believe this actually happened.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

Wow, this guy must have pissed off too many of his fellow GOP House members. I would have expected them to close ranks and support him, at minimum until he was actually convicted. But, this speaks to him being pretty unpopular within his own party.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Just before the vote was about to begin, Rep. Max Miller of Ohio, one of Santos' Republican colleagues, sent an email to the full Republican conference, writing that he and his mother were victims of credit card fraud tied to Santos' campaign and that he would be voting to remove Santos.

"Neither my Mother nor I approved these charges or were aware of them," Miller wrote in the email obtained by NPR. "We have spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees in the resulting follow up."

It's literally because it was starting to affect them personally.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/01/1215899764/george-santos-expulsion-house

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Because he's embarrassing them. It's the one thing most people are unable to tolerate.

[-] atzanteol 9 points 7 months ago

Because he’s embarrassing them.

I mean... Have you seen the remaining members?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

They don't want the focused gaze to slip off him and see them.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

114 voted no, so bipartisanish

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I don’t think bipartisan ever meant “every single Republican and Democrat agreed.” A handful of Dems voted no too

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Trump is going to tap him as his running mate.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

With half the indictments of Trump it’s obvious he’s weak sauce. If he had 94 indictments maybe he’d be the Republican nominee for president.

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