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- Granderson: Arizona’s indictment of Trump allies follows a sordid, racist history
- Impeached Homeland Security secretary navigates working with Republicans who want him out
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- GOP Sen. Kennedy: Democrats are sweeping this 'under the rug'
- Highlights: Senate rejects impeachment articles against DHS Secretary Mayorkas
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- No Serious Problems Reported at the Polls as Americans Vote in the Midterms
The U.S.-Mexico border is a complex region not easily reduced to sound bites that sometimes turn out to be just myths — or convenient lies. "Rather than find ways to secure our border, Secretary Mayorkas has been busy enacting policies to make it easier to enter our country illegally," Bailey said, adding that states are "forced to bear the enormous cost of Secretary Mayorkas' failure." Republicans also accuse Mayorkas of improperly failing to detain migrants and improperly releasing migrants. A two-thirds majority would be needed to convict him in the Senate, which is virtually impossible given that Democrats have called the case against Mayorkas baseless.
Granderson: Arizona’s indictment of Trump allies follows a sordid, racist history
Monday saw a group of Republican and Democratic senators head to the southern U.S. border with Mexico as they try to develop an immigration overhaul to curb the flow of migrants. By a single vote, House Republicans impeached Mayorkas in February for his handling of the border. It was the first time in nearly 150 years that a cabinet secretary had been impeached. It’s no surprise considering Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) has been clamoring since last year for Mayorkas to resign or face impeachment proceedings. Articles of impeachment were filed in early January, but the GOP effort gained steam last week with a House Homeland Security committee hearing about the effect of U.S.-Mexico border policies.
Impeached Homeland Security secretary navigates working with Republicans who want him out
It was an effective start to what could otherwise be a new era of potentially crisis governing. House Republicans are expected to be lurching from one standoff to the next after last week's raucous speaker's race that showcased the challenges ahead as McCarthy confronts a rebellious majority as well as the limits of President Joe Biden's remaining agenda on Capitol Hill. Similarly the House passed a bi-partisan bill codifying same-sex marriage in July, worried that the right would not withstand the new conservative faction on the Supreme Court. The Senate pushed its vote to after the election concerned about getting the necessary Republican votes for it to pass.
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They must lock up their phones in their respective party cloakrooms during the trial. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said he think this will be the end of the impeachment in the Senate, asking why there would be an incentive to go through with any future trials if Democrats dismiss this one. Mayorkas is the second Cabinet member to be impeached, but the first to still be in office.
GOP Sen. Kennedy: Democrats are sweeping this 'under the rug'
The House’s proceedings against Mayorkas have created an oddly split-screen Capitol Hill, as the Senate works deliberately with the secretary on a bipartisan border security package that is now on life support. The impeachment articles come at the conclusion of a yearlong investigation of the situation at the southern border by Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee. "Secretary Mayorkas has testified before Congress more than any other Cabinet secretary," Thompson said. "His willingness to work with the committee has been a welcomed change from the Trump administration, whose official consistently refused to comply with congressional oversight." The Republicans have been here before, just over a decade ago, when the tea party class swept to the majority in 2011, booting Pelosi from the speaker's office and rushing into an era of hardball politics that shut down the government and threatened a federal debt default. But heading into Monday evening's voting on the rules package, at least two other Republicans raised objections about the backroom deals McCarthy had cut, leaving it unclear if there would be enough GOP support for passage.
Washington — House Republicans moved forward with their effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his handling of the situation along the U.S.-Mexico border, holding their first hearing on the matter Wednesday. Some moderate Republicans said Tuesday that they support impeaching Mayorkas. And I would say there’s so many laws on the books that he could enact or enforce, and he does not,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said.
Highlights: Senate rejects impeachment articles against DHS Secretary Mayorkas
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"In my humble opinion, Mr. Mayorkas' border policy is partially responsible for my daughter's death," Josephine Dunn, who testified about her daughter's death from fentanyl poisoning, said. "His wide open border policy allows massive quantities of poisonous fentanyl into our country." DHS said Mayorkas has testified before Congress 27 times in less than three years. The committee has also not communicated with the department in the last week about alternate dates for Mayorkas to testify, a spokesperson said. "This hearing is about the human costs of Secretary Mayorkas' egregious misconduct and failure to fulfill his oath of office," said GOP Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee, the committee's chairman.
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And indeed they have done just that starting with the wasteful and pointless exercise of gathering evidence to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his supposed mismanagement of U.S. border strategy. "There is nothing I take more seriously than our responsibility to uphold the law," Mayorkas said, later adding that "the majority of all migrants encountered at the Southwest border throughout this administration have been removed, returned or expelled — a majority of them." During a visit to the border on Monday, Mayorkas called on Congress to take action to fix the nation's immigration system and said accusations that he has not enforced the nation's laws "could not be further from the truth." "Our investigation made clear that this crisis finds its foundation in Secretary Mayorkas' decision-making and refusal to enforce the laws passed by Congress, and that his failure to fulfill his oath of office demands accountability," he said in a statement announcing the hearing. Frank Bowman, a professor at the University of Missouri's law school, appeared before the committee at the invitation of Democratic members. He stressed that impeachment "is not supposed to be a routine tool to resolve ordinary public policy debates."
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Opening an impeachment investigation into a Cabinet member of the opposing party has become especially common in the past two decades. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor that tabling the articles "would mean declining to discharge our duties as jurors. It would mean running both from our fundamental responsibility and from the glaring truth of the record-breaking crisis at our southern border." Republicans, however, are expected to object to this, and then the Senate will enter an unstructured process, where Schumer would likely move to immediately table one of the articles.
Last month, Republicans unveiled two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas after speeding through impeachment proceedings. Republicans assert Mayorkas should be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors for not enforcing immigration laws. They've focused much of their arguments on the failure to detain all migrants while they await court proceedings. The vote on two articles of impeachment was 214 in favor to 213 opposed, with three Republicans voting with all Democrats against impeachment. Washington — The House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border, with Republicans issuing the chamber's harshest constitutional punishment against a Cabinet secretary for just the second time in U.S. history.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey accused Mayorkas of facilitating an "orchestrated lack of enforcement" of the country's immigration laws, which he said has led to the impeachment proceedings. Romney wouldn’t say whether he’d support a vote to table or dismiss the impeachment articles from the outset of the trial, saying he wanted to look at the legal process. “But I think there’s no question but that this is not going to result in a conviction, because the test of a high crime or misdemeanor being committed has not been alleged, and as a result of that, there will not be a conviction,” he said. "That’s why it’s so wild to me that he is such a subject of animosity for House Republicans because, in the Senate, he seems to have a decent amount of credibility, notwithstanding legitimate disagreements Senate Republicans have with Biden’s immigration policy." In the end, Sen. Eric Schmitt’s objection to allowing for debate and procedural votes ahead of the Democrats’ motions to dispense with the two articles of impeachment precluded Republicans from putting Democrats in a tough spot with substantive votes.
House Republicans accuse Mayorkas and the Biden administration of disregarding federal laws on immigration and seek to make Mayorkas the second Cabinet official impeached in U.S. history. Tuesday’s hearing is another step toward a formal vote to impeach Mayorkas in the full House, which could come as soon as next week, a source close to the impeachment proceedings said. The first accuses him of “willfully and systemically” refusing to comply with federal immigration laws leading to “millions” entering the U.S. illegally. The second article says Mayorkas “breached the public trust” by making false statements to Congress and knowingly obstructing congressional oversight of the Homeland Security Department. The Senate voted that Schumer's point of order is well taken, meaning that it ruled that the first impeachment article is unconstitutional.
Capitol to present the articles of impeachment to the Senate, which they read aloud on the Senate floor. While a majority of senators voted against Belknap on all five articles, the Senate didn’t reach the two-thirds threshold necessary for conviction on any of them. Tester is up for re-election in red Montana in November and voted with all other Democrats to dismiss the impeachment articles against Mayorkas.
When the House impeached William Belknap in 1876, he had resigned as war secretary just hours earlier. The vote on adjourning until April 30 failed as well, also on a party-line vote. He called for the Senate to then vote on tabling Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's point of order. On another party-line vote, Kennedy's corrected motion to adjourn until May 1, 2024, was rejected by the Senate. The second article impeached Mayorkas on breach of trust, charging him with lying to Congress about how secure the border is. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said that the House's impeachment of Mayorkas was political and that it would have set a worse precedent to move forward with a trial.
It’s unclear if Republicans will have the support from their ranks to go through with the impeachment vote in the full House, especially with their slim majority and with Democrats expected to vote against it. Rep. Nick LaLota, a New York moderate, also plans to vote to impeach Mayorkas. The committee's 18 Republican members said in a statement after Thursday's hearing that they all supported impeaching Mayorkas.
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