Over the last two days, the House has been preparing their case to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, for his dereliction of duty on the border.
Here are Representative Mark Green's articles of impeachment summarized by Fox:
Yeah, when your job is to protect the US and guard the border and instead you roll out the red carpet on the border, it's safe to say you aren't doing your job and need to be removed.
The same logic could honestly apply to the old man in the White House as well, but one thing at a time.
Today, the official proceedings are beginning as the articles move to the House for markups this morning.
House Republicans will hold a markup of their impeachment articles against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, moving closer to taking the rare step of impeaching a Cabinet official.
The House Homeland Security Committee will mark up its resolution claiming Mayorkas has committed high crimes and misdemeanors for his handling of the southern border, even though a number of constitutional experts have said the evidence does not reach that high bar.
Yeah, sorry. That block quote is from CNN who are really trying to show their neutrality in their reporting with that reference to "constitutional experts."
Republicans are (apparently) serious about this (you never know with Republicans). With a narrow majority, they are going to have to fight to get everyone in line for the vote.
They can't lose more than 2 Republicans or the impeachment will fail.
Republicans are planning a whip check this week to take the temperature of the conference, a GOP source told CNN.
House GOP Whip Tom Emmer told CNN ahead of the markup that he is counting votes, but added: "We are going to have to pass that. I mean, it's pretty egregious what he's done."
In case you need a history refresher on what Tom Emmer's job is as Whip:
He's gonna whip the Republicans into line and get this impeachment through.
(Representative Mark) Green argued Mayorkas' 'willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law' and 'breach of public trust' amounts to the impeachable offenses of high crimes and misdemeanors. Green claimed Mayorkas has 'willfully exceeded' his parole authority, 'refused to comply' with detention mandates, and lied for saying that DHS has 'operational control' over the border. He cited Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who said Congress could 'employ the weapons of inter-branch warfare,' including impeachment, in light of the Supreme Court ruling that states could not challenge federal immigration law.
It seems so cut and dry. You would hope every Republican, and maybe some common sense Democrats, could get on board.
Of course, there's no way the Senate is going to take up the impeachment and convict Mayorkas, but this is a good test for Republicans' ability to show some spine in the face of opposition.
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