The question of Senate residency arose this week following a WashingtonPost story detailing how Republican U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville did not own property in Alabama after selling parcels in Macon and Tallapoosa counties.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, talks to reporters as he faces backlash for remarks he made about white nationalists in an interview about his blockade of military nominees, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 16, 2023.
Those requirements are based on the U.S. Constitution which sets the same age and citizenship requirements but clarifies the residency requirements to say a candidate must be “an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen,” at the time they are elected.over time, to include “only the time they take the oath of office.”
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