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(The Guardian) As effort against Mayorkas moves ahead, White House asks, “Is there anyone House Republicans won’t impeach?”
In the wee hours of this morning, the Republican-controlled House homeland security committee approved the charges against Alejandro Mayorkas by a party line vote and sent them for consideration by the full chamber. House speaker Mike Johnson is expected to hold a vote on impeaching the homeland security chief at some point next week, though with a margin of just one seat (!) it’s going to be interesting to see if any GOP lawmakers defect from the effort. Even the charges are approved, the impeachment is headed for a trial in the Senate that will likely prove futile. Democrats control the chamber, and convicting Mayorkas of the “high crimes and misdemeanors” he is accused of requires a two-thirds majority, which is likely unobtainable.
The White House is nonetheless peeved by the committee’s action, describing it as petty and noting that Republicans have talked about impeaching Joe Biden and various officials ever since he took office. “Is there anyone House Republicans won’t impeach?” read an email from the White House press team this morning.
The House homeland security committee convened at 10am yesterday, but it took them until 1am this morning to finally approve the articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, after hours of debate on various amendments offered by both parties. Here’s a recap the marathon hearing, and what happens next: House Republicans voted along party lines after midnight on Wednesday to move toward impeaching the homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, for a “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce immigration laws as border security becomes a top 2024 election issue.
In a charge against a cabinet official unseen in nearly 150 years, the homeland security committee debated all day on Tuesday and well into the night before recommending two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas to the full House.
The committee Republicans voted in favor, while the Democrats unified against, 18-15.
The partisan showdown reflected the Republicans’ efforts to make the Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s hard-line deportation approach to immigration their own. That approach was mirrored on a second front on Tuesday, as Republicans also lambasted the border deal recently brokered between the Joe Biden White House and a bipartisan group of senators, Democrats and Republicans alike.
Mayorkas, in a letter sent to the Republican chair of the House committee on homeland security before the hearing began, dismissed the impeachment process against him as “politically motivated”.
In the wee hours of this morning, the Republican-controlled House homeland security committee approved the charges against Alejandro Mayorkas by a party line vote and sent them for consideration by the full chamber. House speaker Mike Johnson is expected to hold a vote on impeaching the homeland security chief at some point next week, though with a margin of just one seat (!) it’s going to be interesting to see if any GOP lawmakers defect from the effort. Even the charges are approved, the impeachment is headed for a trial in the Senate that will likely prove futile. Democrats control the chamber, and convicting Mayorkas of the “high crimes and misdemeanors” he is accused of requires a two-thirds majority, which is likely unobtainable.
The White House is nonetheless peeved by the committee’s action, describing it as petty and noting that Republicans have talked about impeaching Joe Biden and various officials ever since he took office. “Is there anyone House Republicans won’t impeach?” read an email from the White House press team this morning.
The House homeland security committee convened at 10am yesterday, but it took them until 1am this morning to finally approve the articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, after hours of debate on various amendments offered by both parties. Here’s a recap the marathon hearing, and what happens next: House Republicans voted along party lines after midnight on Wednesday to move toward impeaching the homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, for a “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce immigration laws as border security becomes a top 2024 election issue.
In a charge against a cabinet official unseen in nearly 150 years, the homeland security committee debated all day on Tuesday and well into the night before recommending two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas to the full House.
The committee Republicans voted in favor, while the Democrats unified against, 18-15.
The partisan showdown reflected the Republicans’ efforts to make the Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s hard-line deportation approach to immigration their own. That approach was mirrored on a second front on Tuesday, as Republicans also lambasted the border deal recently brokered between the Joe Biden White House and a bipartisan group of senators, Democrats and Republicans alike.
Mayorkas, in a letter sent to the Republican chair of the House committee on homeland security before the hearing began, dismissed the impeachment process against him as “politically motivated”.
