After delaying the request for months, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) finally asked Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to step down this week.
“In light of this guilty verdict, Senator Menendez must now do what is right for his constituents, the Senate, and our country, and resign,” Schumer wrote on X.
Menendez, 70, was found guilty on all 16 counts in federal court on Tuesday, including allegations of conspiracy, bribery, obstruction of justice, corruption, and operating as a foreign agent.
As a result, he could spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Presumably to preserve Democrats’ slender Senate majority, Schumer had rejected requests to assist in forcing Menendez out of office.
In the days that followed Menendez’s indictment last year, at least thirty Democrats, including members of the party leadership team, had demanded that he step down.
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