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[Virginia] AG: General Assembly has the power to expel legislators
Amanda Chase, we're talking about you!
From Augusta Free Press:
AG: General Assembly has the power to expel legislators
Published Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, 10:12 am
Attorney General Mark Herring issued an advisory opinion Friday confirming that the Virginia General Assembly “possesses broad power to discipline and, where it judges appropriate, expel member legislators.”
The opinion was issued in response to a query from Del. Lee Carter, a Northern Virginia Democrat running for the party’s gubernatorial nomination, in regard to the participation of State Sen. Amanda Chase, a candidate for the Republican Party nomination for governor, in the rally that preceded the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Chase addressed the Jan. 6 rally preceding the attack on the Capitol, but left before the Capitol was breached.
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The matter addressed by Carter in his letter requesting the legal opinion from Herring may already be moot. The Washington Post is reporting today that a tentative deal had been struck between Chase and Senate Democrats in which Sen. John Bell, D-Loudoun, would agree to withdraw the resolution he submitted to censure her if she would “clarify” her remarks about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and offer a general apology for insults she has lobbed at Democrats.
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Published Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, 10:12 am
Attorney General Mark Herring issued an advisory opinion Friday confirming that the Virginia General Assembly “possesses broad power to discipline and, where it judges appropriate, expel member legislators.”
The opinion was issued in response to a query from Del. Lee Carter, a Northern Virginia Democrat running for the party’s gubernatorial nomination, in regard to the participation of State Sen. Amanda Chase, a candidate for the Republican Party nomination for governor, in the rally that preceded the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Chase addressed the Jan. 6 rally preceding the attack on the Capitol, but left before the Capitol was breached.
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The matter addressed by Carter in his letter requesting the legal opinion from Herring may already be moot. The Washington Post is reporting today that a tentative deal had been struck between Chase and Senate Democrats in which Sen. John Bell, D-Loudoun, would agree to withdraw the resolution he submitted to censure her if she would “clarify” her remarks about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and offer a general apology for insults she has lobbed at Democrats.
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Full story is at https://augustafreepress.com/ag-general-assembly-has-the-power-to-expel-legislators/