[GaryCrow]

The simple answer is refuse to seat him. He was expelled for cause, that cause is still valid. If the legislature lets him back in then their authority has been usurped. It’s no different than ignoring a judge’s order and the judge just saying OK. You’ve got to enforce your order or you have no legitimacy.

[hanamizu]

“The simple answer is refuse to seat him. He was expelled for cause, that cause is still valid.”

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SCOTUS addressed this issue at the Federal level when the House expelled Adam Clayton Powell. Of course his Harlem constituents voted him back in. When the House attempted to refuse to seat him, SCOTUS ruled that they had to accept him.

I have no doubt that the voters in the Memphis and Nashville districts will vote both expelled members back in. And there they’ll stay.