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☆ If Santos is expelled, it'll be more punishment than an 1850s lawmaker got for nearly beating a rival to death with a cane
  + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
By comparison, a lawmaker who attacked a rival in a racist frenzy in 1856 was not kicked out. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Perhaps the most striking examples of a lawmaker who faced expulsion and survived was a 19th-century Congressman who nearly killed a rival in the Senate chamber. Since then, only two lawmakers have been expelled from Congress — one for taking bribes and another after being convicted on federal corruption charges. According to the damning House Ethics Committee's report on Santos, he spent campaign cash on designer clothes, OnlyFans, and Botox.
Persons: George Santos, —, Preston Brooks, Charles Sumner, Brooks, Sumner, Santos Organizations: Service, Republican, Economist Locations: South Carolina
☆ Opinion | Rumbles in the Senate and the Supreme Court — and the Movie You’ll Never See
  + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
There was a lot of news this week, and I could not write a column about every event. Rumble on the Senate FloorOn Tuesday, Markwayne Mullin, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, challenged Sean O’Brien, the president of the Teamsters, to a fight during a Senate hearing. The two had previously exchanged insults after Mullin complained that unions were trying to undermine his plumbing business. He noted the caning of Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts by Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina, an incident that left Sumner seriously injured. That extremism produced a rigid and doctrinaire style of politics that condoned violence and, in short order, destabilized the nation’s political system.
Persons: Markwayne Mullin, Sean O’Brien, Mullin, “, Charles Sumner of, Preston Brooks of, Sumner, — Sumner Organizations: Republican, Teamsters, CNN, Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, Democratic Party Locations: Oklahoma, Preston Brooks of South Carolina
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