The Republican-controlled House voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The vote marks the first time in nearly 150 years that a Cabinet secretary has been impeached.
House Republicans have spent months investigating the secretary’s actions as they’ve aimed to make immigration and border security a key election issue.
Seems like kind of a waste of government time and resources.
For most, this would reflect poorly at review time. For some, this would invite a dismissal for performance or team cohesion issues. These folks wouldn’t know anything about any of that.
“Do something about the border!”
“Give us funding.”
“No! Do something about the border.”
“We can’t without funding.”
“We said no! DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE BORDER!”
“What would you have us do?”
“IMPEACHED!!!”
What happens next is it goes to the Senate for a dog and pony show and dies.
How much do you want to bet that they never would have impeached if he was named “Alex Mayor” and was born here instead of Cuba?
I’ve been saying this from the start- they went after a non-white administration member first and that was a message.
The nomination approval process, where white people and men sailed through while non-white women where put through the wringer with some of them not even making it, also delivered that message.
Same thing that would have happened if this failed this vote, absolutely nothing. This is just the Republicans throwing a temper tantrum to drum up news coverage and to give the talking heads over on Faux News something to yammer on about for a while. Expect to see the headline “Crisis at the Border” used prominently by Faux for a while.
Fucking childish theatrics. He was impeached on no grounds.
Question: does impeachment mean anything, i mean they impeached trump twice i believe and still sat there till the end
It has effectively become a political stunt unless one party controls both wings of Congress, at which point it will become a way to remove anyone they dislike for any reason
The house impeaches with a majority of votes for the members present at the time.
Next it has to pass the Senate trial. The Senate is 49 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 3 independent. A couple Democrats also tend to side with Republicans. Since he has been impeached, a trial happens in the Senate and 2/3 majority has to agree to remove from office.
I’d assume unless someone fucked up really badly and both sides hate them it is very unlikely for a 2/3 majority.
