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Heartstrings

(7,349 posts)
Mon Dec 21, 2020, 06:26 PM Dec 2020

Recall Ron Johnson....link to sign petition in text

Dear Friends,

I just signed the campaign: Recall Senator Ron Johnson

It would mean the world to me if you could also add your name to this important issue. Every name that is added builds momentum around the campaign and makes it more likely for us to get the change we want to see.

Will you join me by taking action on this campaign?

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/recall-senator-ron-johnson-2?share=eb03fed0-e3d2-42b2-9f4c-1b2addd5b654&source=s.fwd&utm_source=s.fwd

After you've signed the petition please also take a moment to share it with others. It's super easy – all you need to do is forward this email.

Thank you!

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Recall Ron Johnson....link to sign petition in text (Original Post) Heartstrings Dec 2020 OP
Sorry, there is no constitutional mechanism for voter recall of a US Senator or Representative. hlthe2b Dec 2020 #1
Darn! This is circulating all over WI.... Heartstrings Dec 2020 #3
Oooohhhh. Ellipsis Dec 2020 #2
Done....✔️ LakeArenal Dec 2020 #4
Done milestogo Dec 2020 #5

hlthe2b

(102,351 posts)
1. Sorry, there is no constitutional mechanism for voter recall of a US Senator or Representative.
Mon Dec 21, 2020, 06:30 PM
Dec 2020

I surely sympathize with you, though. He's a royal jerk.

https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL30016.html

As to removal by recall, the United States Constitution does not provide for nor authorize the recall of United States officers such as Senators, Representatives, or the President or Vice President, and thus no Member of Congress has ever been recalled in the history of the United States. The recall of Members was considered during the time of the drafting of the federal Constitution in 1787, but no such provisions were included in the final version sent to the states for ratification, and the specific drafting and ratifying debates indicate an express understanding of the framers and ratifiers that no right or power to recall a Senator or Representative in Congress exists under the Constitution. Although the Supreme Court has not needed to directly address the subject of recall of Members of Congress, other Supreme Court decisions, as well as the weight of other judicial and administrative decisions, rulings, and opinions, indicate that (1) the right to remove a Member of Congress before the expiration of his or her constitutionally established term of office is one which resides exclusively in each house of Congress as expressly delegated in the expulsion clause of the United States Constitution, and (2) the length and number of the terms of office for federal officials, established and agreed upon by the states in the Constitution creating that federal government, may not be unilaterally changed by an individual state, such as through the enactment of a recall provision or a term limitation for a United States Senator or Representative. Under Supreme Court constitutional interpretation, since individual states never had the original sovereign authority to unilaterally change the terms and conditions of service of federal officials agreed to and established in the Constitution, such a power could not be “reserved” under the Tenth Amendment. Even the dissenters in the Supreme Court decision on the Tenth Amendment and term limits, who would have found a “reserved” authority in the states regarding “qualifications” of Members of Congress, conceded that the exclusive authority to remove a sitting Member is delegated to each house in the expulsion clause of the Constitution, and that with respect to “a power of recall ... the Framers denied to the States [such power] when they specified the terms of Members of Congress.”

Ellipsis

(9,124 posts)
2. Oooohhhh.
Mon Dec 21, 2020, 06:32 PM
Dec 2020

Don't know if it will get to 25% of people who voted in the election.

It just might.


That office has been written and called multiple times in this household.

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