I thought perhaps we could recall the bozos who won't impeach and the remaining dems that weren't up for election to make a point that citizens want impeachment. But no.
https://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid='0E,*PL[:#0
Recall of Legislators and the Removal of Members of Congress from Office
Summary
Under the United States Constitution and congressional practice, Members of Congress may have
their services ended prior to the normal expiration of their constitutionally established terms of
office by their resignation or death, or by action of the house of Congress in which they are a
Member by way of an “expulsion,” or by a finding that in accepting a subsequent “incompatible”
public office, the Member would be deemed to have vacated his congressional seat.
Under Article I, Section 5, clause 2, of the Constitution, a Member of Congress may be removed
from office before the normal expiration of his or her constitutional term by an “expulsion” from
the Senate (if a Senator) or from the House of Representatives (if a Representative) upon a formal
vote on a resolution agreed to by two-thirds of the Members of that body present and voting.
While there are no specific grounds for an expulsion expressed in the Constitution, expulsion
actions in both the House and the Senate have generally concerned cases of perceived disloyalty
to the United States, or the conviction of a criminal statutory offense which involved abuse of
one’s official position. Each house has broad authority as to the grounds, nature, timing, and
procedure for an expulsion of a Member. However, policy considerations, as opposed to questions
of authority, have appeared to restrain the Senate and House in the exercise of expulsion when it
might be considered as infringing on the electoral process, such as when the electorate knew of
the past misconduct under consideration and still elected or re-elected the Member.
As to removal by recall, the United States Constitution does not provide for nor authorize 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 recall of Members was considered during the time of the drafting of the federal
Constitution in 1787, but no such provisions were included in the final version sent to the states
for ratification, and the specific drafting and ratifying debates indicate an express understanding
of the framers and ratifiers that no right or power to recall a Senator or Representative in
Congress exists under the Constitution. Although the Supreme Court has not needed to directly
address the subject of recall of Members of Congress, other Supreme Court decisions, as well as
the weight of other judicial and administrative decisions, rulings, and opinions, indicate that (1)
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, and (2) the length and number
of the terms of office for federal officials, established and agreed upon by the states in the
Constitution creating that federal government, may not be unilaterally changed by an individual
state, such as through the enactment of a recall provision or a term limitation for a United States
Senator or Representative. Under Supreme Court constitutional interpretation, since individual
states never had the original sovereign authority to unilaterally change the terms and conditions of
service of federal officials agreed to and established in the Constitution, such a power could not
be “reserved” under the Tenth Amendment. Even the dissenters in the Supreme Court decision on
the Tenth Amendment and term limits, who would have found a “reserved” authority in the states
regarding “qualifications” of Members of Congress, conceded that the exclusive authority to
remove a sitting Member is delegated to each house in the expulsion clause of the Constitution,
and that with respect to “a power of recall ... the Framers denied to the States [such power] when
they specified the terms of Members of Congress.”
