House Impeaches DHS Sec. Mayorkas by One Vote
214-213. Three Republicans voted no.
The House of Representatives has impeached DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by one vote.
214-213.
Three Republicans voted no. It helped that Majority Leader Steve Scalise is back after cancer treatment.
Great news! He is in remission!!
#BREAKING: U.S House Impeaches DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, 214-213. pic.twitter.com/eQWPeHrUWU
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 14, 2024
The same three Republicans voted no:
1. Mike Gallagher (R-WI)
2. Tom McClintock (R-CA)
3. Ken Buck (R-CO)
Remember, Rep. Blake Moore voted no last time for procedural reasons.
The trial will start later this month, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer:
The office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Mayorkas’ impeachment trial will begin later this month.
“The House impeachment managers will present the articles of impeachment to the Senate following the state work period,” Schumer’s office said in a statement. “Senators will be sworn in as jurors in the trial the next day. Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray will preside.”
The Republicans claim:
Throughout his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Mayorkas has repeatedly violated laws enacted by Congress regarding immigration and border security. In large part because of his unlawful conduct, millions of aliens have illegally entered the United States on an annual basis with many unlawfully remaining in the United States. His refusal to obey the law is not only an offense against the separation of powers in the Constitution of the United States, it also threatens our national security and has had a dire impact on communities across the country. Despite clear evidence that his willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law has significantly contributed to unprecedented levels of illegal entrants, the increased control of the Southwest border by drug cartels, and the imposition of enormous costs on States and localities affected by the influx of aliens, Alejandro N. Mayorkas has continued in his refusal to comply with the law, and thereby acted to the grave detriment of the interests of the United States.
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It’s helpful to know which RINOs you can’t count on.
Good. They did something right. It’s a step in the right direction.
Does it matter? It won’t result in a removal, and it doesn’t need to. Biden would replace him with someone just as rotten.
But it matters that his record is stained with this vote, just as his record is stained with the blood of everyone killed by an illegal immigrant.
He is scum.
It helps because it both keeps focus on the mass illegal immigration and disproves any media myth that both parties support Biden’s insane policies.
Record stained? It’s a badge of honor for him to be impeached by this Republican Congress. Will probably expand his potential job prospects in the private sector.
Scum with a smug look on his face that warrant tarring and feathering.
Truly despicable turds.
These are the sort of people you cannot ever have behind you. They are the lowest sort of backstabbing scum.
Are any of these susceptible to be being primaried?
On the contrary, these are among the most conservative members of the House.
McClintock opposed impeachment because the proponents could not identify any actual crime that Mayorkas has committed. In his view he is standing up for the constitution, exactly as he was when he opposed Trump’s impeachment.
As he wrote: “The only way to stop the border invasion is to replace the Biden administration at the ballot box. […] Swapping one leftist for another is a fantasy, solves nothing, excuses Biden’s culpability, and unconstitutionally expands impeachment that someday will bite Republicans.”
Buck and Gallagher had the same reasons. As Gallagher wrote: “Secretary Mayorkas has faithfully implemented President Biden’s open border policies and helped create the dangerous crisis at the southern border. But the proponents of impeachment failed to make the argument as to how his stunning incompetence meets the impeachment threshold Republicans outlined while defending former President Trump.”
How about false swearing/ perjury? Mayorkas swore an oath to “faithfully discharge the duties of the office” and has not done what he swore he would do.
See Jeh Johnson’s sworn affidavit upon taking the reins of DHS:
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/jeh-johnson-oath-of-office.pdf
Failure to keep an oath is not perjury.
It may not be THAT crime, but it IS a federal crime.
Lying under oath to congress is.
He committed Perjury. That is a *crime*.
In any event, please tell me what is, otherwise, the Congressional remedy when the President or Cabinet Official refuses to follow laws passed by Congress and signed by a previous president (thus becoming a “Law”).
Mr. Trump, on the other hand, was impeached on fictional evidence.
Give me a break.
What lie did he tell under oath?
And who says Congress must have a remedy for it? Mayorkas is simply carrying out the president’s policy, which is his job. He doesn’t work for the people, or for congress, he works for the president. That’s how the constitution set it up. The executive branch is vested entirely in the president, and all officers exercise executive power only as his agents.
And yes, Trump’s impeachment was completely bogus; do you imagine any of these three dispute that?!!! That is the whole point of their vote against this impeachment; they say it’s wrong for the same reason that the two for Trump were wrong.
“Mayorkas is simply carrying out the president’s policy, which is his job.”
Lotta people condemned at Nuremberg were doing precisely that.
Nuremberg was a political process, not a judicial one. It explicitly did not set a legal precedent.
More to the point, our constitution says that an executive officer such as Mayorkas serves the president, in whom the entire executive power is vested. So he is required to carry out the president’s policies and therefore shouldn’t be impeached merely for doing so.
He lied repeatedly and said the border was ‘secure.’ By no objective metric is our border secure, particularly not when we’re seeing tens-of-thousands of so-called ‘got-aways’ EVERY MONTH, and in some months, every WEEK. That was a lie.
The Government *must* have a remedy for when people violate written law, Milhouse, or what is the point having Congress?
Would it be ‘Constitutional’ if we impeached Mr. Biden for Mr. Mayorka’s actions instead?
You say Nuremeberg was a political process.
I say, so is *Impeachment*. It is Congress jealously defending the power to state what the law is, and to have it executed faithfully.
Just as designed.
“Nuremberg was a political process, not a judicial one.”
Sure. A political process, one heard by an international military tribunal in Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. Keep on believin’, Milhouse.
“Secure” is not a matter of objective fact but of opinion. It’s a conclusion one draws, and a judgment one makes, so if in his judgment it’s secure then it’s not perjury to say so.
It’s the same way that calling someone a “racist” is not defamation, because it’s an opinion not a statement of fact. Or calling someone a “murderer”, or a “traitor”. For the same reason those could not be perjury. Perjury, like defamation, must consist of a statement of cold hard fact, and it must be capable of being proven false.
“someday will bite Republicans”
LOL. “Someday” was a few years ago, but ok Tom, good one. Very funny.
That’s ridiculous. Anyone who calls this orchestrated invasion “incompetence” is a moron. The invasion is the goal and the intent of their actions. They are all guilty of treason – Mayorkas, Biden, and the rest of the junta.
“Incompetence” … what a crock and you well know it, just as MClintock and the other treasonous d-bags do. Everything about orchestrating this invasion is intentional and willful.
You don’t weld gates open to let illegals in, and call it incompetence.
On the contrary, you are completely wrong
Completely
We already know that neither you nor Primordial give a crap about the truth, or about the constitution.
Law Jesus has spoken 😂😂
The “no crime” refrain is nothing but an excuse for political cowardice. Impeachment is imposed for high crimes and misdemeanors. Surely Mayorkas’s dereliction of duty (not just failure to enforce immigration laws but actively undermining enforcement) is at least a misdemeanor. For that matter, his repeated perjury while testifying under oath that the border was secure qualifies as a crime. One Republican dimwit (whose name I forget) suggested it was useless to remove this Democrat filth from office because he would only be replaced by alternate filth. But part of the intended purpose of impeachment surely is discouraging dereliction of duty, misfeasance, and malfeasance. BTW I didn’t bother with the term “high crimes.” Since all crimes are low acts, the Framers’ term of art can only mean crimes committed by those in high office (with the means of evading punishment)—crimes like perjury, for example.
McClintock is more conservative than the vast majority of the GOP conference. You may not agree with his vote, but his reasoning is anything but squishy.
His “reasoning” is completely retarded.
McClintock was a economic hawk when he entered the House – not a phony like Paul Ryan.
I’ve not followed his voting habits – he’s not in my district -but will now go and check what’s up.
Rep. Tom McClintoc said on the House Floor Tuesday that,
That sort of reasoning is wholly outdated – it would’ve made sense thirty+ years ago.
It’s gentlemanly foolishness on a grand scale.
Playing by the Marquess of Queensberry Rules ends with us losing our country.
It’s called being faithful to the constitution.
To paraphrase Viktor Orbán, the Constitution is not a national suicide pact.
It may reveal itself a suicide pact after all. Madison was a piker — he knew very well that impeachment existed in common law — and several state constitutions — to remove derelict executives like Mayorkas, but he got squeamish and moved the threshold to crimes.
Now, we are screwed. The damage is done. Trump help us.
That’s moronic. You are making the same arguments that Barky and his buddies do when they interpret “prosecutorial discretion” as meaning that enforcement gets to pick and choose which laws they will enforce. That is not what “prosecutorial discretion” means and everyone knows it.
Orchestrating an invasion of America by intentionally abusing and ignoring laws is not being “faithful to the Constitution” in any reasonable person’s mind. Your claim reveals you for what you truly are.
Put down the bottle
I expect you to ride the ship down with the rest of the purity folk – with constitution firmly in hand and your sense of moral dignity intact.
This is one portion of how the Bolsheviks+Anarchists defeated the Russian professional class.
Selfish dignity before Realpolitik.
“I expect you to ride the ship down with the rest of the purity folk – with constitution firmly in hand and your sense of moral dignity intact.”
That’s never going to happen — he and/or his descendants can always flee to Israel when life become intolerable here.
The rest of us are making our last stand.
Nonsense! Being faithful to the Constitution means ensuring that the president (and his administration) does in fact faithfully enforce the laws—which Prez “Weekend at Bernie’s” Biden’s regime not only doesn’t do but actually seeks to undermine our laws. Breaching separation of powers works both ways between the legislative and executive branches to fully be faithful to the Constitution.
In what universe is the crap these bozos are doing “being faithful to the constitution?” No wonder the country is in such deep kimchee.
@DaveGinoly
If you are quoting a dictator you might want to reconsider whether it has any real value in context of an actual democracy
It’s not outdated, but utterly false. Mayorkas was not merely incompetent. He deliberately acted to allow the invasion of illegals.
His reasoning was that he didn’t want to set a precedent that had already been set by a previous Congress. That barn door was already open, the horse was already out.
The simple fact that he was one of only THREE to vote against it says that no, he is not ‘more conservative’ than the vast majority of the conference.
Patty Murray presides? OMG she is as dumb as a post. G-d help the USA.
It doesn’t really matter the whole things a farce
She used to be called the dumbest woman in congress. She has a lot of competition for the title these days.
I wish that he could be convicted and deported!
IMO the primary significance of his impeachment is that anyone voting against his impeachment or conviction can have that vote hung around their necks as the border crisis worsens and has ever broader impact over the next 9 months before the election. In fact, Biden might want to consider having him be convicted and pretend to take a new approach.
Patty Murray is dumber than a bag of hair.
This should make for some comedy gold.
Otherwise, I expect absolutely nothing from this.
Wow, they actually managed to do one thing right. They can’t pass budget bills because that’s their job, but at least they can impeach one traitor from the pedophile Administration.
They had to do it today because a D just won the seat that the RINO morons threw Santos out of, and as soon as he was seated they couldn’t do it anymore.
They are so stupid, Johnson was so freaking stupid
To all those who argue that no “actual crime” can be identified:
Impeachment is a political process, not a judicial one. If you were able to talk with Madison and Hamilton they would tell you that impeachment was once referred to ‘maladministration’ and can be started when someone in the public trust FAILS to act.
Exactly, and Mayorkas will say “I was just doing my job” 100 times, and each time he’ll be implicating Biden as the boss demanding open borders — the message we want during election season.
And the Senate won’t remove him or convict him at all.
Can you say useless gesture’?
Here’s the thing, Republicans, if you’re going to use impeachment to gesture, go big, go for the big guy. Impeach Biden.
It’ll have the same effect as impeaching Mayorkas. The same effect impeaching Trump had.
But it will show that you’re at least willing to use what’s been used on us.
And you know what? You could actually accomplish something if you could find your balls.
Impeach Biden. Let the Senate acquit him. And then impeach him again. Over and over until November..
That will end the left’s attempts to destroy the country and make the fake president the most impeached person in history.
And who knows? The Senate might see the light and you can impeach Harris, too.
again the gop pretends as they help the welfare state grow and grow
and have allowed our schools and military to be taken over by the left
but nowwww after alllll these millllions of ill eagles have come to america
they make this BOLD empty move
the wh will show a DECREASE in border crossings and an uptick in deportation it will represent another failure
The GOP must have been “helping” the OJ Prosecutors
judging by their ineptness in delivering justice to pro Americans