The House has voted alongside get together traces to question Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Senate just isn’t anticipated to convict him or expel him from workplace.

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The House has voted alongside get together traces to question Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Senate just isn’t anticipated to convict him or expel him from workplace.

PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP through Getty Images

The House of Representatives has voted 214-213 to question Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” in imposing border coverage and “breach public trust.” Three Republicans voted with all Democrats in opposition to the impeachment.

Mayorkas is the primary cupboard member to be impeached since William Belknap, Secretary of War beneath President Ulysses S. Grant, in 1876. It is very unlikely that he shall be convicted within the Senate or faraway from workplace.
Mia Ehrenberg, a DHS spokesperson, stated in a press release that the impeachment was achieved “without a shred of evidence or legitimate Constitutional grounds.”

“House Republicans will be remembered by history for trampling on the Constitution for political gain rather than working to solve the serious challenges at our border,” Ehrenberg stated.

The House’s profitable impeachment vote comes every week after one other failed vote on the measure. Three Republicans joined with a unanimous Democratic caucus to dam the trouble. This time, due to the return of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House Majority Leader, following an extended absence to hunt therapy for blood most cancers, they have been in a position to overcome the opposition to move the impeachment measure.

The effort fulfills a key promise made by House Republican lawmakers to their base voters and underscores the convention’s willingness to utilizing their investigative and oversight powers to maintain border safety and immigration enforcement centerstage heading into the 2024 election season.

The matter now heads to the Democratic-controlled Senate, the place lawmakers are extensively anticipated to acquit or in any other case sidestep the costs and permit Mayorkas to stay in his position.

Some Republicans within the higher chamber have expressed considerations that Mayorkas’ actions don’t rise to the “high crimes and misdemeanors” customary set by the Constitution for impeachments and the precedent set by the House Republicans’ effort.

In a press release condemning the House vote, President Biden stated: “History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games.”