CNN's Kate Bolduan on Friday schooled Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) over her decision to vote against the expulsion of scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos (R-NY) after a damning House Ethics Committee report found that he spent campaign donors' money on Botox and online pornography.
At the start of the segment, Spartz acknowledged that serious allegations had been made against Santos, but said that he had not yet been convicted in a court of law, which she said should be the standard for expulsion.
Bolduan, however, interjected to note that the United States Constitution does not explicitly say that a member must be convicted in a court of law to warrant expulsion.
"Here is what it says in the Constitution with regard to expulsion: 'Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member,'" Bolduan said. "The Ethics Committee the way they concluded it was that Santos sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit. Why do you want someone like that to be one of your colleagues in voting with you in the House?"
"This is a serious allegation but we have to have a level of proceedings before we go to conviction to expel," Spartz replied. "This should be a last resort. It's only been done when people were convicted in the court of law in crimes or treason."
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