re: If Cassidy is ousted or resigns...

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If it is not specifically prohibited then by default it is permitted.

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The same argument applies to the fact there is nothing in the constitution that provides for and authorizes a mechanism to engineer a recall of federal elected officials.

The US Supreme Court is on record saying this in Burton v United States and they say nothing about a recall...

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The seat into which he was originally inducted as a Senator from Kansas could only become vacant by his death, or by expiration of his term of office, or by some direct action on the part of the Senate in the exercise of its constitutional powers.33

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It’s pretty clear how SCOTUS would respond to federal/state legislation that provides for a recall against a federal politician.

Struck down in a landslide.

This is a congressional research document that lays out the history of recalls. LINK