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      Congress did an internal investigation and determined he likely broke the law. There you go.

      This is just like any other workplace.

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        The bar for losing your job as a congress person or any public servant for corruption should be way lower than the bar for being sent to prison.

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      He said this well after the Ethics Committee released its findings. Santos was effectively shown to be guilty.

      In the previous attempts at expulsion, a lot of people voted against simply because the report wasn’t out yet. It would have set a dangerous precedent to vote to expel someone without proof of wrongdoing.

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      He literally was just convicted in a trial by his peers. His explosion is exactly the basis for common law including many of the points of the magna carta.