The process is a vote by the members noting for the record that 1) X number members gave aide or comfort to an insurrection against the United States; 2) Are disqualified and therefore cannot be seated; and 3) These seats are vacated and must be filled in accordance with the rest of the 14th amndmnt
![The end of page 332 into page 333 of the Power Broker, by Robert Caro. Chapter title: New York City Before Robert Moses.
"Bryant Park, six priceless acres of green amid the concrete masses of
midtown, had been allowed to become a haven for drunks and idlers. In 1932, the city obligingly trucked away two of the park's principal ornaments, eight-foot-high statues of Washington Irving and James Marion Sims, founder of the first women's hospital in New York, and allowed a "George Washington Bi-Centennial Celebration Commission" (debonair Grover Whalen, one of Walker's police commissioners, was chairman) to erect a flimsy reproduction of Federal Hall, the building in which Washington was inaugurated, in the park and then fence it off and place turnstiles at its corners so that the public would be forced to pay admission to see the hall. When the public declined in great numbers to do so, the commission went out of existence without funds to demolish its creation. After picking up the demolition tab, the city discovered that it had managed to lose the Irving and Sims statues. Possibly because the omission of five tons of granite and metal would not be easily concealed in a reconstructed park, Bryant Park was not reconstructed- and in January 1934 it was a weed-filled vacant lot."
There is a footnote to this paragraph, describing the financial and public details of this disaster, and how "[the Bi-Centennial Commission] went out of existence, leaving $76,254 in largely unexplained 'expenses,' and Sears, Roebuck holding the bag for its contribution. The 'Hall stood, crumbling around the edges, in the huge vacant lot that Bryant Park had become until the city, embarrassed by the screams of rage from the Park Association, tore down the structure at its own-or rather at its taxpayers'-expense.
The Bi-Centennial Celebration did.. provide Whalen with valuable experience in running a public exposition. He put it to use in running the 1939 New York World's Fair-which lost $200 m"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gruusgefwvg623dk5wtvwef3/bafkreiboousgqy4254bi5wwzr6eay46ejg2zdyr6dhjiboauxkcqn3z67y)
![A black soldier in a jungle passes by a note stenciled on a wall:
US NEGR ARMYMEN
YOU ARE COMMITTING THE SAME IGNOMINIOUS CRIMES IN SOUTH VIETNAM [...] THAT THE KKK CLIQUE IS PERPETRATING AGAINST YOUR FAMILY AT HOME](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gruusgefwvg623dk5wtvwef3/bafkreiaw4n7hb5gkra24jl3cbdis6bagcd4x2ncpjrl4vw7v2ewijvceei)
