Law George Santos to be charged

[HARRISON_3]

Now he’s free to be Trump’s running mate.

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

Typical racist Dems trying to take down a strong black Ukrainian Jewish man!!!

 

[rearnakedchoke]

witch hunt!!

 

[KaNesDeath]

Fellow Republicans dont realize that Trumps character was the catalyst to Santos.

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

Did not a single journalist do their job?

 

[Sinister]

The last part of the CNN article shows the level of protection politicians get.

Can remain in Congress
The charges do not, from a legal standpoint, affect Santos’ status as a member of Congress. Nothing in the Constitution’s requirements for congressional office bars individuals under criminal indictment or conviction from serving, except for the 14th Amendment prohibitions for certain treasonous conduct committed after a member has taken the oath of office.

Under the formal rules for the US House of Representatives, according to a Congressional Research Service report, “an indicted Member may continue to participate in congressional proceedings and considerations.”

However, if a member is convicted of a crime that could result in a punishment of two or more years in prison, they are instructed under House rules not to participate in votes on the floor or in committee votes.

There's a logical reason for this, and it's the idea that if someone attemtped to assume dictatorial power they cannot charge their opposition with crimes and then use those charges to remove them from office. Yes it sucks that people like Santos and that corrupt Democrat who recently got indicted seem to think this is insulation from legal accountability, but it's not. It's more of a fail safe, Santos being expelled, charged, and ultimately convicted demonstrates that the system CAN work, albeit I'd wager his persona and sexuality make it so that Republicans were fairly lukewarm about circling the wagons for him, that and that he defrauded the donor class, not the poor.

 

[curryjunkie]

witch hunt!!

jim jordans already saying that, as is MTG..

 

[44nutman]

Santos said if he gets kicked out, he was going to out all the adulterers.
I wonder how many GOP members of congress will get outed? The GOP is progressive with their adultery because lately it seems to be only the women getting caught with side pieces.
Family Values indeed.
The problem with Santos is the GOP cant Cawthorne him after he threatened to out them, because what are you going to leak to make him look bad.

 

[CatchnShoot]

Kicked out....... that there was ever a question as to whether or not it would happen is quite an indictment of the house tbh.

 

[Fluffernutter]

There needs to be a constitutional amendment that allows a state to recall a senator or congressman.

The idea that a guy can lie his way into office and there's nothing his constituents can do to get rid of him is ridiculous.

The silver lining would be that as a member of the House, constituents have their say every other year.

 

[Fluffernutter]

Santos said if he gets kicked out, he was going to out all the adulterers.
I wonder how many GOP members of congress will get outed? The GOP is progressive with their adultery because lately it seems to be only the women getting caught with side pieces.
Family Values indeed.
The problem with Santos is the GOP cant Cawthorne him after he threatened to out them, because what are you going to leak to make him look bad.

Santos and Cawthorn should go on Rogan within a week and spill the beans

 

[Fluffernutter]

Did not a single journalist do their job?

And lose access to a potential rising star in politics?

 

[Joe]

 

[HOLA]

Kicked out....... that there was ever a question as to whether or not it would happen is quite an indictment of the house tbh.

Looks like it was still close too!

"The vote was 311 to 114, just slightly more than the two-thirds House supermajority required to remove a member."

 

[Fluffernutter]

Having 2/3 of the House agreeing on anything is a pretty big deal

 

[NickNick]

How does choosing his replacement work? Does the NY governor just get to pick whoever they want?

 

[LangfordBarrow]

Looks like it was still close too!

"The vote was 311 to 114, just slightly more than the two-thirds House supermajority required to remove a member."

I wonder how many of those 114 also voted to invalidate the '20 election results.

 

[LangfordBarrow]

Having 2/3 of the House agreeing on anything is a pretty big deal

Nah. This was a guy that should have obviously been ostracized and expelled. You can argue to wait for an investigation to conclude but that just confirmed his chicanery. Having people like that in office because they'll vote your way is dangerous to our democracy and 114 people were willing to turn a blind eye.

 

[MicroBrew]

Did not a single journalist do their job?

Small, local paper uncovered and reported George Santos scandal before November election​

Small, local paper uncovered and reported George Santos scandal before November election

A watchdog group filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission accusing newly sworn-in Rep. George Santos of illegally using campaign funds and masking the source of those funds. The North Shore Leader, a small paper on Long Island, broke the scandal before the November election. By the...

www.pbs.org

So, a lot of people with a newspaper and a lot of people I knew outside the newspaper were following him and tracking him and looking at what his claims were. And what we all concluded was that he was a fraud. He was making things up and lying and boasting and putting people down, claiming he was such a rich man, when he clearly wasn't.

And so we all smelled a fake, and we started looking through his campaign finance reports. And we saw a lot there that looked fraudulent, really over-the-top fraudulent.

 

[Fluffernutter]

It will be interesting seeing what kind of precedent this will set.