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LordoftheMorons posted...

I don't really agree with that line of thought. In any other job you wouldn't need a criminal conviction to be fired for egregious conduct, and George Santos's rights aren't the only ones at issue here; he's making decisions for the whole country despite being a massive fraud (similarly, Bob Menendez should be expelled from the Senate).

(You could punt it to a House investigation, but I don't think there's a single person here who has any doubt that George Santos has committed acts that should disqualify someone from a position of public trust)

It's not his rights that are critical here. It's the rights of his voters. They selected him, and if you expel him you are silencing their voices. Perhaps they believed him, or they thought he was lying and voted for him anyway. Impossible to tell. Most likely, he is not going to win reelection (but if he does, then it's a sign that his district just doesn't care about fraud).