Published January 1, 2024
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas may become the first Cabinet member to be impeached in 1876 after the House Homeland Security Committee voted early Wednesday morning to send two articles of impeachment against him to the full House.
The committee approved the articles in an 18-to-15 vote along party lines, CBS News reported, citing “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and “breach of public trust” in the secretary’s approach to the border crisis.
The full House is expected to take up the issue next week.
“We cannot allow this man to remain in office any longer,” committee chair Mark Green of Tennessee told CBS. “The time for accountability is now.”
House Democrats, unsurprisingly, called the Republican-led effort to impeach Mayorkas a “sham.”
“Neither of the impeachment charges the committee will consider today are a high crime or misdemeanor,” said committee ranking member Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, according to CBS.
He said the “impeachment scheme is a dangerous attempt to distort the Constitution,” Axios reported.
Perhaps more surprisingly, one of the lawyers who defended former President Donald Trump during his impeachment hearings, Alan Dershowitz, agreed with him.
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Published February 1, 2024
We’ve been covering the Mayorkas impeachment. The embattled secretary for the Department of Homeland Security has been rightfully targeted for being an absolute clown at his job. The number of illegal aliens that have poured across the border is historic. The number of those on the terror watch list who have taken advantage of our porous border to enter the United States is disturbing. Migrant fatalities have soared through the roof, along with victims of human trafficking. It’s an abysmal situation, and Mr. Alejandro Mayorkas has done nothing to alleviate the crisis.
If anything, he’s handcuffed Border Patrol and other federal law enforcement agencies tasked with protecting our borders from doing their job. Is this a politically motivated impeachment on behalf of House Republicans? Maybe. I don’t care either way. Also, Democrats need to shut it when it comes to lectures about politics motivating impeachment hearings. At any rate, the articles against Mayorkas advanced on an 18-15 vote Wednesday morning. It’s expected to be voted on by a full House vote next week (via Politico):
House Republicans took a critical step early Wednesday toward imp
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SOURCE: www.townhall.com
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Published January 30, 2024
The House Committee on Homeland Security will prepare articles of impeachment against DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas for his failure on the country’s border crisis.
