A lot of talk about 'expelling' GOP members, or 'not seating' them, pointing to supposed Civil War precedents. Here are the facts:
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As war neared, and Southern states passed their respective Acts of Secession, most of their Representatives and Senators 'withdrew' from the U.S. Congress (voluntarily). What to do with their vacant seats was then hotly debated.
After hostilities commenced, and some Southern politicians who had *not* 'withdrawn' from the Congress actually took up arms against the U.S., they were expelled for sedition and rebellion.
Note that the operative definition of sedition, then and now, involved fomenting or participating in actual violence against the United States. We are not there, yet (though Gohmert comes close).
As we come to grips with the crisis posed by a majority of GOP MOC's, and a substantial number of GOP Senators, actively working to undo a legal election, it's important to keep our facts straight, and to draw upon our history correctly.
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