Senator Cory Booker tells Rachel Maddow that he would lead an effort to expel Senator Menendez from the senate after his guilty verdict today if Menendez doesn't resign.
Sen. Bob Menendez was already facing a bleak political and legal future, but things went from bad to worse for the New Jersey Democrat after a jury found him guilty on 16 federal corruption counts. Ahead of the verdict, most of his colleagues in the Senate Democratic conference had called for Menendez’s resignation, and after the verdict, the number grew — quickly. Indeed, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wasted no time in calling for Menendez to step down. Others, including Sens.
GOP senators learned that one of their colleagues had just been convicted on corruption charges, but they made no real effort to show him the door. Circling back to our earlier coverage, there might very well be an ideological dimension to this: When it comes to foreign policy, Menendez is to the right of most of his Democratic colleagues.
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