Until the GOP elects MAGA asshats to the Senate

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

On again, off again, on again

Whoopsie

Sadly, I think they'll just go looking for another target.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 02/07/2024:

The final vote was 214-216, with only House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) absent due to treatment for blood cancer.

Scalise’s absence made the difference for the vote, as did the surprise appearance of Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) – who was absent for votes earlier in the day and a vote just before the Mayorkas impeachment articles came up.

With Green’s absence, the House GOP could have spared three defections and still approved the impeachment articles, but his attendance changed that math, giving Republicans a cushion of just two votes.

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Opposition from Reps. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) in the slim GOP majority sank the bill.

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In a statement after the vote, Gallagher said Mayorkas had “faithfully implemented President Biden’s open border policies and helped create the dangerous crisis at the southern border.” But he said proponents had failed to show his conduct met the standards for impeachment.

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Rep. Blake Moore (R-Utah), the chair of the GOP conference, flipped his vote to “no” seconds before the vote closed, a procedural maneuver that allows the conference to bring the legislation back to the floor at a later date.

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Raj Shah, deputy chief of communications for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), posted on X after the vote that “House Republicans fully intend to bring Articles of Impeachment against Secretary Mayorkas back to the floor when we have the votes for passage.”

  The Hill

Mayorkas impeachment

Dan Goldman is on it.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Turley could use the rehabilitation

Jonathan Turley, a conservative commentator and legal scholar, argued the GOP does not have sufficient evidence for impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, undercutting the effort the day before Republicans are set to kick off a series of hearings to remove him from office.

Turley’s comments, via an op-ed in The Daily Beast, cast Republicans impeachment plans as based on a “disagreement on policy” that is lacking the sufficient evidence to boot Mayorkas from office.

“There is also no current evidence that he is corrupt or committed an impeachable offense,” Turley wrote.

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Like with the president, cabinet secretaries can be impeached only for high crimes and misdemeanors.

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“In my view, Biden has been dead wrong on immigration, but voters will soon have an opportunity to render a judgment on those policies in the election. Mayorkas has carried out those policies. What has not been shown is conduct by the secretary that could be viewed as criminal or impeachable.”

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The comments from Turley, a regular GOP witness on congressional proceedings, come after he similarly cast doubt on the investigation into President Biden’s family, telling lawmakers he did not see sufficient evidence at the time of the September hearing to back an impeachment vote.

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At another point during that hearing he said some of the details they’d gathered “really do gravitate in favor of the president.”

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Republicans have [...] claimed Mayorkas has violated the law, failing to meet the standards of the Secure Fence Act, which defines operational control of the border as a status in which not a single person or piece of contraband improperly enters the country.

Turley wrote Tuesday that while Republicans might be upset over how Mayorkas is enforcing the law, officials have wide discretion over how to carry out federal laws.

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“The courts have long recognized that presidents are allowed to establish priorities in the enforcement of federal laws, even when those priorities tend to lower enforcement for certain groups or areas. It is a matter of discretion,” Turley wrote.

“Absent some new evidence, I cannot see the limiting principle that would allow the House to impeach Mayorkas without potentially making any policy disagreement with a cabinet member a high crime and misdemeanor. That is a slippery slope that we would be wise to avoid. Indeed, it is precisely the temptation that the Framers thought they had avoided by rejecting standards like maladministration,” he added.

  The Hill

If the GOP maintains control of the House, and should they get control of the Senate in 2024, you can bet they will be skiing on that slope.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

So begins the litany of impeachment articles

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) filed the paperwork for [articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] on Jan. 3, the first day of the 118th Congress, though with delays in securing a House Speaker, the document was officially filed late Monday.

The resolution claims Mayorkas “engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompatible with his duties,” complaining that he has failed to maintain operational control over the border.

  The Hill

I would have thought Fauci or Biden himself would have been targets before Mayorkas.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.