Because you need 2/3 of 432 sitting members to vote to expel them, or 288. Dems hold 222 seats, so they'd need 66 out of 73 non-seditionist GOP to vote to expel any of the other 138.
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1350139995525427205
So you'd need 90% of the non-seditionist GOP to vote to expel any of the others.
I can't imagine that any of the 138 seditionists would have the chutzpah to expel any of the *other* seditionists for being "MORE seditionist-y than I am!"
I can't imagine that any of the 138 seditionists would have the chutzpah to expel any of the *other* seditionists for being "MORE seditionist-y than I am!"
TO CLARIFY: I'm talking about a scenario where no sitting member of Congress is actually charged in the coup attempt.
If any of them are arrested, then the odds of a chunk of non-seditionist GOP members cutting them loose increases dramatically, and if they're convicted...
If any of them are arrested, then the odds of a chunk of non-seditionist GOP members cutting them loose increases dramatically, and if they're convicted...
And of course every one which *is* expelled or resigns lowers the 2/3 bar slightly for others as well...
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