“After a marathon, 13-hour hearing, the House Homeland Security Committee voted along party lines to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The vote was 18-15,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Republicans on the panel charged that Mayorkas was guilty of ‘willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law’ as well as a ‘breach of public trust.’ No Cabinet official has been impeached in nearly 150 years.”
“The full House is very likely to vote on Mayorkas’ impeachment next week.”
New York Times: “The GOP was plowing forward without producing evidence that Mr. Mayorkas committed a crime or acts of corruption, arguing instead that the Biden administration border policies he implemented ran afoul of the law. Legal scholars, including prominent conservatives, have argued that the effort is a perversion of the constitutional power of impeachment, and Democrats remained solidly opposed.”
