Breaking: House impeaches Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, succeeding on second try, in a rebuke of Biden’s immigration policy. The resolution is non-binding, however, and may not go very far in the Senate because even some Republicans don’t believe that Mayorkas’s actions clear the bar for the high crimes and misdemeanors necessary for conviction. But Mayorkas is the first sitting Cabinet secretary to be impeached in 150 years. This story will be updated.
" legal observers worry that the most serious tool the U.S. Constitution provides to rein in a public official is being misused as partisan weapon"
Dear legal observers: don’t “worry,” state the bloody obvious clearly. The House GOP has abused the most serious tool the U.S. Constitution provides to carry out a purely partisan attack.