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5. re: "Some states have provisions for recall": the Constitution grants NO STATE the power to recall
Sun Jan 17, 2021, 07:00 AM
Jan 2021

so any state that has passed such a statute has merely engaged in stage-crafting.

The United States Constitution does not provide for nor authorizes the recall of United States officers such as Senators, Representatives, or the President or Vice President, and thus no Member of Congress has ever been recalled in the history of the United States. The right to remove a Member of Congress before the expiration of his or her constitutionally established term of office is one which resides exclusively in each house of Congress as expressly delegated in the expulsion clause of the United States Constitution

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