Derryn Hinch cleared of constitutional breach

Crossbench senator Derryn Hinch will not be referred to the High Court over concerns he was ineligible to sit as a parliamentarian.

Senator Hinch had vowed to refer himself to the court this week following revelations he still held a US social security card from his time living in New York in the 1960s and 1970s.

He says Attorney-General George Brandis told him that advice from constitutional lawyers suggests he is not in breach of the constitution and his election was legal.