House Republicans moved in historic fashion and impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by a single vote on Tuesday night, succeeding on their second try in punishing the steward of President Biden’s immigration policy.
The unprecedented and partisan resolution — which cleared the House over opposition from Democrats and three GOP members — may not go very far in the Senate, as some Republicans in the upper chamber do not believe that Mayorkas’s actions clear the bar for the high crimes and misdemeanors necessary for conviction. But Mayorkas is the first sitting Cabinet secretary to be impeached and some bipartisan and legal observers worry that the most serious tool the U.S. Constitution provides to rein in a public official is being misused as partisan weapon.
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I hope not. I hope Shumer refuses to bring it up or dismisses it out of hand.
On the other hand, putting their complaints on record and pointing to the immigration bill that fixes all of them — the one that Johnson refuses to consider because it’s bipartisan and because Trump wants to campaign on a fictional “border crisis” — might be entertaining. And it might swing a few more votes.