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(U.S.A.) Removing senators not from your state
<p><strong>Background example:</strong><br />
People in California want to remove a senator from Kentucky.</p>
<p>Can this be performed?</p>
<p>How can it be performed?</p>

<p>The only way that a member of the House of Representatives, or a U.S. Senator can be removed from office (other than by resignation, death, or expiration of a term of office without being re-elected) is by a two-thirds vote of the chamber removing that member. The relevant provision of the United States Constitution is Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 which states:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its
Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two
thirds, expel a Member.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives may be removed by a two-thirds vote of the U.S. House, and a U.S. Senator may be removed by a two-thirds vote of the U.S. Senate.</p>
<p>This has been done <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_expelled,_censured,_or_reprimanded" rel="nofollow noreferrer">five times</a> since 1789 in the U.S. House, most recently in 2002. It has been done <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_expelled_or_censured" rel="nofollow noreferrer">fifteen times</a> since 1789 in the U.S. Senate (the most recent 14 times in 1861 and 1862 in connection with the U.S. Civil War).</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The case of William Blount in 1797</a> established the precedent that expulsion of a member by a chamber, rather than impeachment, is the proper process to remove a member of Congress.</p>
<p>Members of Congress <a href="https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL30016.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">may not be recalled</a>, and are not automatically removed from office upon conviction of a crime.</p>
<p>Apart from the expulsion process, there is no way for voters or states to remove U.S. Senators not from their own state, something that doesn't make sense to be possible in the overall context of the structure of the United States government under the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p>Senate Rule XXIII in part <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-99sdoc33/html/CDOC-99sdoc33.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">provides that</a> ``if the impeachment shall
not, upon any of the articles presented, be sustained by the
votes of two-thirds of the members present, a judgment of
acquittal shall be entered;''</p>
<p>A quorum of the full Senate and not just those sworn in for the trial is required.</p>
<p>The Senate rules in the case of an expulsion of a member are analogous.</p>
