Rottimer t1_j560xpf wrote
Reply to comment by PandaJ108 in Dems, GOP lining up potential candidates if Santos leaves his seat by newzee1
No, it’s not automatic. Unless he resigns, they’d have to vote to kick him out. Worse, if by some miracle they arrest and convict him - but Republicans don’t kick him out and he doesn’t resign, he could probably argue to a judge that he needs to be released each day to do his job in congress and stay in jail at night or when congress is otherwise out of session.
pixel_of_moral_decay t1_j57lil9 wrote
Or defer his sentence until the end of his term.
Sentences to get deferred for various reasons. Judges have that discretion.
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