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Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 4:19 PM
Subject: Menendez, Indicted, Should Resign From Leadership
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Dear Robert,
 Press Menendez to step down from Senate leadership.
 *Sign the Petition
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 New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez has just been indicted on
federal corruption charges. [1] Like every US citizen facing criminal
prosecution, he has a right to the legal presumption of innocence until
proven guilty.

But Menendez is also currently a member of the Senate Democratic leadership
– the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - and that is
another matter entirely. He doesn’t have a right to continue in a position
of leadership while he is under indictment; on the contrary, the
responsible thing for him to do is resign from his leadership position
while he is under indictment. That’s what Rep. Charlie Rangel did when he
was under an ethics investigation. Indeed, under the rules of the Senate
Republican caucus, it’s *automatic* that a Senator under indictment has to
resign from leadership.



*Join over 10,000 others in pressing Menendez to step down from leadership
by signing our petition at MoveOn:
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Thanks for all you do to help make US foreign policy more transparent and
accountable,

Robert Naiman and Megan Iorio
Just Foreign Policy

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References:
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/nyregion/senator-robert-menendez-indicted-on-corruption-charges.html

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