'Dangerous new precedent': Republican slams fellow lawmakers over failed impeachment stunt
By: Matthew Chapman (Raw Story - Celebrating Years of Independent Journalism)
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Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Department of Homeland Security participates in chat with Reverend Al Sharpton at NAN 2023 Convention at Sheraton Times Square in New York on April 12, 2023 (Photo: Lev Radin/Shutterstock)
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) took to the Wall Street Journal Wednesday to slam his Republican colleagues over a failed vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
"Impeachment not only would fail to resolve Mr. Biden's border crisis," Gallagher wrote, "but would also set a dangerous new precedent that would be used against future Republican administrations."
Mayorkas would have been held criminally responsible for southern border policy and his impeachment would have been only the second in history of a cabinet secretary.
It failed after several Republicans, Gallagher included, expressed skepticism over the project, but GOP leadership moved ahead anyway. Even if had passed, securing conviction in the Senate would have been almost impossible.
Gallagher skewered his fellow conservatives with a thorough analysis of articles of impeachment he said made no sense.
"The first article of impeachment lays out in grueling detail Mr. Mayorkas's manifest incompetence," Gallagher wrote. "But incompetence doesn't rise to the level of high crimes or misdemeanors."
The Republican lawmaker argued "maladministration" has never been a valid standard for impeachment.
The second article, which accused Mayorkas of obstructing the investigation, was basically the same as the articles of impeachment against former President Donald Trump in 2019, Gallagher wrote. He added that the GOP had rejected the argument on the grounds it was too premature.
"Creating a new, lower standard for impeachment, one without any clear limiting principle, wouldn't secure the border or hold Mr. Biden accountable," Gallagher concluded. "It would only pry open the Pandora's box of perpetual impeachment."
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Biden impeachment fizzled, this one fizzled. Marjorie is losing her mind. What a week for the GOP House.
Brandon's investigation is still going- you might have missed it with all the blockage from Garland, Weiss, DOJ, FBI, and IRS.
As for Mayorkas he deserves to be impeached along with Garland.
Republicans need to literally clean out the last of old pukes that put maintaining the Establishment before the good of the country.
Biden will not be impeached.
Won't matter, he'll be out of office by November, if not before.
Mayorkas is criminally responsible for the crisis at the border. He is following the orders of his boss Biden to keep the stream of potential Democrat voters flowing nonstop for as long as possible.
It's worth noting that these impeachments without hope of conviction are just for show and optics anyway, and just a waste of time, as we learned in Trump's case.
Their Daddy Trump got impeached twice for good causes which really miffed the MAGA. So now impeachment is the gop's new toy!
No matter, their new majority is on its way out already...
Turnabout is fair play.
How did that turn out for the gop regarding Secretary Mayorkas?
A BIG FAIL!
Immigration Reform FAILED!