With Menendez Under Indictment, What’s Going to Happen to His Senate Seat?

The ensuing legal proceedings to determine Menendez’s guilt or innocence could, of course, take years to resolve, with a trial probably not coming anytime soon. But New Jersey Democrats face a much more immediate problem: what the hell is going to happen to Menendez’s Senate seat, which comes before voters next year?

Much of that rests on Menendez himself – whether he steps aside or chooses to forge ahead with his re-election bid, as a statement he released this morning (9/22) implies he may do.