An email first sent over the weekend sent by Fetterman’s campaign came from the address “info@gopsquad.com” and vowed: “I’m always going to reject Socialism and the Anti-American way of life.” Other recent appeals sent from the same address encourage readers to help President Donald Trump pass new voting restrictions, to read an “urgent memo” from House Speaker Mike Johnson on fighting the left, and to back Republican Mike Rogers for Senate in Michigan over Abdul El-Sayed, whom the email compared to a terrorist and a “threat to our way of life.”
Is there precedent for a party being able to eject or disown a member so they are not allowed to use the affiliation anymore?
The way it works is House/Senate members caucus with each other, that’s how the majority is decided, but there doesn’t have to be just two options it’s just math.
Bernie famously isn’t a Dem, but every two years when a new Congress convenes, he says he wants to caucus with the Dems, and they accept him to count towards majority.
So…
In January (February?) when a new Congress convenes, Fettermen will pick D or R, but they can reject him if they really wanted to. They can “kick him out of the party” that way, but it would be very stupid.
To expell from the Senate, it takes a 2/3s majority and basically only worked during the civil war when a bunch of senators who supported the South stopped showing up in DC for some reason…
The 2/3s majority is who’s there, so a bunch of confederates got expelled from a government they had already seceeded from.
What we need is recall elections voters of that state can trigger.
Quick edit:
I have no idea if Fetterman caucuses with R if that changes the letter by his name…
I think he’s the only one that can change it from what party he was elected as. Which sucks in this situation, but woupd be a lot worse if the party could just kick someone out, because the neoliberals would 100% kick out progressives even if it meant handing Republicans a majority with under 50 seats if they regained the party and were desperate enough.
Unfortunately, no, he was elected on the DNC ticket and that fact is immutable. He also cannot be recalled because the district which elected him never passed laws including any such mechanism.
He could be sued for defamation if he ever made statements about his fellow party members or claimed to speak for all of the DNC, but he isn’t.