It can be both. Very specifically, expelling someone who hasn’t been convicted of anything is bad precedent. But it’s also necessary when the crimes are this obvious, this tied in to his job as congressman, and the legal system moves as slow as it does.
expelling someone who hasn’t been convicted of anything is bad precedent
In most cases, I would agree with this. In the case of Santos, I do not. He ran his campaign claiming to be several things he is not. When that information was discovered, I think that would be enough to throw him out. At the point of knowing his entire persona was lies, he was not the person the people elected.
It can be both. Very specifically, expelling someone who hasn’t been convicted of anything is bad precedent. But it’s also necessary when the crimes are this obvious, this tied in to his job as congressman, and the legal system moves as slow as it does.
In most cases, I would agree with this. In the case of Santos, I do not. He ran his campaign claiming to be several things he is not. When that information was discovered, I think that would be enough to throw him out. At the point of knowing his entire persona was lies, he was not the person the people elected.