One day after Senate Democrats squashed the House Republican effort to remove Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas from office, GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky held Mayorkas’ feet to the fire during a Senate hearing, making him squirm in his seat. On Wednesday, Democratic senators shut down the impeachment proceedings initiated last week by the […]
DHS Secretary Mayorkas was not impeached by the Senate on Wednesday. Senator Cortez Masto (D-NV) described the impeachment as a “waste of time.” That may not seem like a controversial thing for a Democrat to say since it was obvious that Senate Democrats were never going to impeach Mayorkas. But, just a few days ago, […]
President Joe Biden’s least-popular Cabinet secretary will skate free from a formal Senate impeachment trial. The Senate dismissed two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday. The move guarantees that Mayorkas won’t stand trial in the upper chamber. The secretary faced charges of willful and systemic refusal to comply with the […]
The Senate voted to dismiss articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, the first time the chamber has exonerated a public official without holding a trial or reviewing evidence. Democrats said the two articles against Mr. Mayorkas were mundane “policy differences” that fell short of the Constitution’s demand for high crimes […]
When it comes to precedents, Democrats sure do love to break them to protect their own. After impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas were delivered to the Senate this week, both impeachment articles were quashed by the Democrat-controlled upper chamber before a trial was even held. “Senate […]
Senate Democrats on Wednesday derailed the impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by deeming them unconstitutional. Along party lines and without debate, the two charges related to mishandling illegal immigration at the southern border were rapidly dismissed within roughly three hours of the commencement of the Senate impeachment trial. All 51 senators of […]
The House delivered articles impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday, kicking off what is expected to be an abbreviated process that Democrats have vowed will end in acquittal. Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee led 10 fellow Republicans in marching the two articles across the Capitol and reading the 19-page indictment […]
The House delivered the two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday afternoon. The articles are expected to be acted on quickly by the Democrat-controlled Senate, but not in the manner House GOP lawmakers are seeking. “We want to address this issue as expeditiously as possible,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck […]
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was repeatedly pressed Tuesday on whether a terrorist attack is imminent in the U.S. but he declined to say, instead assuring lawmakers he is “vigilant.” Mr. Mayorkas, speaking just before the start of Senate impeachment proceedings against him, also wouldn’t say whether people on the government’s terrorist watchlist have been […]
Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, left Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas stumbling during a Wednesday hearing by rhetorically asking him what powers Congress had stripped him of to enforce the border. Mayorkas testified during a hearing of the House Appropriations’ homeland security subcommittee titled “Budget Hearing: Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the Department of Homeland Security.” Cloud […]
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