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Republican lawmakers to introduce resolution to expel Rep. George Santos from Congress (www.nbcnews.com)

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A group of House Republicans from New York are introducing a resolution to expel Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress.

"Today, I’ll be introducing an expulsion resolution to rid the People’s House of fraudster George Santos," Rep. Anthony D'Esposito, R-N.Y., said in a post on the social media platform X.

He said the resolution will be co-sponsored by fellow New York House Republicans Nick LaLota, Mike Lawler, Marc Molinaro, Nick Langworthy and Brandon Williams.

Booting Santos would require a two-thirds vote of the entire House.

The move comes a day after federal prosecutors issued Santos a 23-count superseding indictment alleging he committed identity theft, fraud and other offenses. Santos has said he plans on fighting the charges and pleaded not guilty to the charges in the original 13-count indictment earlier this year.

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[-] argo_yamato@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago

But it takes 2/3 to remove him. No way there are enough Republicans with morals and integrity for that to happen.

[-] ski11erboi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Wait so only republicans vote? I thought it was the whole house.

[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is the whole House. Right now, there are 221 Republicans and 212 Democrats. So 289 votes are needed to expel Santos. You can safely assume that all Democrats will vote to expel so the Republicans will need to come up with 77 more votes. ~~This is a little over half. If half of all Republicans can't agree on this, it will fail.~~ A little over a third of Republicans would need to vote for this.

Edit: 289 votes are needed, not 325.

[-] GopherOwl@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

How did you get 325? There are 435 members normally (433 assuming your numbers are right with vacancies, which seems believable.) 2/3 of 435 is 290.

So you'd only need ~78 republicans with morals. Still wouldn't happen, but weirder things have.

[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Oops. You're right. I'm not sure how I made that mistake. I'll edit my comment.

[-] roy_mustang76@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

It is, but you'd need a substantial portion of Republicans to break ranks and vote to expel a member of their own party (reducing their vote margin) in order to expel him, since the Republicans are the majority

I hope to see it but certainly not holding my breath.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This will go nowhere. If they can let him cast his votes from prison, they will.

[-] lemme_at_it@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It would still be nice to see which of them think that he is part of the gang.

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