Questions tagged [us-senate]
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Can the Vice President influence debate in the Senate?
The Vice President is President of the Senate. Now even in the extremely weak President role of the Articles of Confederation, the President was understood as having some influence over debate. In ...
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Can Congress' rules be unconstitutional?
I'm very interested in U.S. Constitutional law and do a lot of mock government. One of the questions that I have been considering is whether it is possible for a rule Congress sets for its proceedings ...
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Is it criminal trespass for a person who is otherwise allowed access to property to violate the owner's policy?
I have found myself wondering about this while looking at online discussion of the recent incident in which a US Senate staffer (allegedly) taped himself having sex with someone else in a ...
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Does Article V Ab Initio Void the 17th Amendment?
Article V of the U.S. Constitution says the following:
"... no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."
I understand this to roughly mean: "...
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What does the "(U)" prefixed to each paragraph denote in reports by the US Senate Select Committees?
To illustrate, here's a screenshot from page 52 of the "Postwar findings about Iraq’s WMD programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessment", with the text ...
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Why can't we go back to the required supermajority for things in the Senate if they abolished it once in the past?
I read in the news that the Senate had abolished the required supermajority to confirm Supreme Court justices.
Why can't the Senate vote to re-instate the required supermajority? I understand it is ...
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Can a quorum call in the US Senate "annul" a pro forma session? Would this mean that the Senate would go into recess?
I recently watched CGP Grey's video on the Supreme Court nomination process, which discusses (among other things) the use of pro forma sessions of the US Senate to keep the President from making ...
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Can you become a U.S. senator if you have dual citizenship?
Can you become a U.S. senator if you have dual citizenship? Or is there a law that says you can only become a U.S. senator if you have only one citizenship and you are a U.S. citizen? I know you can ...
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(U.S.A.) Removing senators not from your state
Background example:
People in California want to remove a senator from Kentucky.
Can this be performed?
How can it be performed?
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Could a US president be advance pardoned from the result of a senate trial following impeachment?
Non-American here, trying to puzzle things out.
If I understand correctly, a US president can grant pardons, but only for federal crimes.
If I understand correctly, impeachment is a political act, and ...
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Could Senators convene congress by objecting to the closing of a pro-forma session?
Here's the hypothetical:
Congress is adjourned, but the Example Caucus wants it to convene again as soon as possible. Congress plans to take recess for more than three days, so they've scheduled ...
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What happens if a USA House Rep or Senator is caught committing voting fraud *after* being sworn in a week or month later?
Hypothetical question: If a USA house rep or senator is caught with extremely strong evidence that shows they only won via voting fraud, whether through mass ballot harvesting or other forms of fraud, ...
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Could the US Senate confirm a new supreme court justice during the lame-duck period?
The Republicans are currently trying to confirm their candidate for the Supreme Court before the election. Today it was announced that the senate will be on break for a few days due to several corona ...
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Can the US Senate be abolished without unanimous consent of the States?
Article V of the US Constitution states, in part:
and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
It has been suggested elsewhere that abolishing the ...
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Does impeachment conviction necessarily imply removal from office?
The relevant bits of Article 1 Section 3 state that:
Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of ...
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