In a purely political move to give House Republicans to do while things go to shit with Donald Trump…..
By a 214-213 ONE VOTE margin …
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, is charged with a a failure to enforce border security….
The charge will go nowhere in the US Senate….
Mayorkas serves at the pleasure of the President who sets American border immigration policy since the US Congress simply CANNOT deal with the issue which IS used by Republicans to hit Democrats politically…
The secutary’s boss , Prersident Biden has expressed his displeasure at the House Republicans and has his Homeland Securty Sec’s back….
Again…
This action has NO charge of a crime (The Consitition mentions ‘high crimes and misdemeanos’)’as has other impeachment’s (Trump?) in the past…
It IS a First….
The United States House of Representatives voted narrowly on Tuesday to impeach Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, in a precedent-shattering vote that charged him with willfully refusing to enforce border laws and breaching the public trust.
In a 214 to 213 vote, Republicans barreled past the solid opposition of Democrats and reservations in their own ranks to make Mr. Mayorkas the first sitting cabinet secretary in U.S. history to be impeached.
It amounted to a partisan indictment of President Biden’s immigration policies by the G.O.P., which is seeking to use a surge in migration across the United States border with Mexico during his tenure as a political weapon against him and Democrats in this year’s elections.
The vote came a week after the House rejected the charges against Mr. Mayorkas when Republicans, who control the House by a razor-thin margin, tried and failed to muster a majority to approve them….
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Three Republicans — Representatives Ken Buck of Colorado, Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin and Tom McClintock of California — lined up with Democrats against the resolution. They warned that impeaching a cabinet secretary for the way he did his job would weaken a weighty constitutional penalty and do nothing to address serious immigration issues.
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Unlike last week, when the Republican defections were enough to sink the bill, leaders made sure they had enough members present on Tuesday to eke out approval of the charges — albeit by the narrowest of margins. Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 Republican, returned to Washington from a round of treatment for blood cancer, ensuring his party would have a majority.
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Democrats have argued that the effort to impeach Mr. Mayorkas is just another gesture of fealty by congressional Republicans to former President Donald J. Trump, who has made clear that he wants to make cracking down on immigration a centerpiece of his presidential campaign.
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Democrats, former secretaries of homeland security, the country’s largest police union and a chorus of constitutional law experts — including conservatives — have decried the impeachment as a blatant attempt to resolve a policy dispute with a constitutional punishment. They said Republicans had presented no evidence that Mr. Mayorkas’s conduct rose to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, the standard for impeachment laid out in the Constitution…..
Some Impeached US Gov Officials….
Bill Clinton…President
Donald Trump….President
image…CNN
Ah CG?
Ya got what U want….
Uh no. I have said many times I opposed impeaching Mayorkas.
Please do not misrepresent me.
I did support all the impeachments of Clinton and Trump for the record.
U DID give the impression U thought he would be impeached…..
He was…..
And they got right in BEFORE Suozzi…..
“Would be” and “should be” are very different things.
Since you seem unable to be able to tell the difference, I think you are someone desperately in need of taking at least a week off of whatever you think you are accomplishing with this website to see maybe you can recharge.
Actually I’m VERY HAPPY with how this place is doing….
Weekly numbers of visits have gone from around 900 to 2,000
Twitter picked up also….
More chatter here these days…
I’m fine…
Suozzi…63.2
Polip…36.8
More Qns…..
Latest results from 2m ago
9% OF VOTES IN
Special Election
Candidate Party Votes Percent Pct. Chart showing percent
Tom Suozzi
Democrat 10,258 +63.0% 63.0%
Mazi Pilip
Republican 6,021 +37.0% 37.0
Total reported
16,279
Results by county
Results by county
County Suozzi Pilip Total votes Percent of votes in % In
Nassau 49% 51% 202 <1%
Queens 63 37 16,077 60%
ERAL
U.S. HOUSE
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estimates
12% of votes counted
AP estimates less than 25% of votes have been counted.
CANDIDATE VOTES PCT.
Thomas Suozzi
DEM
13,589 61.1%
Mazi Pilip
GOP
8,659 38.9%
Updated
Feb 13, 2024, 9:18 PM
Suozzi is STRONGLY carrying the Queens Dem voting….
AP estimates less than 25% of votes have been counted.
CANDIDATE VOTES PCT.
13% in
Thomas Suozzi
DEM
15,470 61.5%
Mazi Pilip
GOP
9,670 38.5%
Updated
Feb 13, 2024, 9:20 PM