Pressure mounts on Schumer to expel Menendez

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is under growing pressure to refer Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) conviction to the Senate Ethics Committee in preparation of a vote to expel Menendez from the Senate if he doesn’t resign of his own accord.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D), who would appoint Menendez’s temporary replacement, called on the Senate Tuesday to vote to expel Menendez if he doesn’t resign immediately, a call that was echoed by Rep. Miki Sherrill (D-N.J.).

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