Rep. George Santos expelled from Congress on bipartisan vote

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Mike Johnson said "I personally have real reservations about doing this [expulsion], I’m concerned about a precedent that may be set for that." Yes, let's NOT set a precedent of holding politicians accountable for lies, fraud, and theft!

It should be pretty easy to find the list of everyone else who voted not to expel, so we know who is pro-corruption.

Four words: Innocent until proven guilty.

That's like a basic principle of a Rule of Law.

Congress did an internal investigation and determined he likely broke the law. There you go.

This is just like any other workplace.

The bar for losing your job as a congress person or any public servant for corruption should be way lower than the bar for being sent to prison.

He said this well after the Ethics Committee released its findings. Santos was effectively shown to be guilty.

In the previous attempts at expulsion, a lot of people voted against simply because the report wasn't out yet. It would have set a dangerous precedent to vote to expel someone without proof of wrongdoing.

He literally was just convicted in a trial by his peers. His explosion is exactly the basis for common law including many of the points of the magna carta.

Explosion? This whole event was way cooler than I initially thought.