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Ocasio-Cortez vows to file impeachment articles against Supreme Court justices

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) announced Monday that she will soon file impeachment articles against at least one justice on the Supreme Court in the wake of their decision to grant partial immunity to former President Trump as he faces felony charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Ocasio-Cortez, a prominent liberal on […]

GOP makes weak pitch as Senate rejects Mayorkas impeachment articles

More than a month after House Republicans impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, despite the GOP’s inability to find any evidence of him committing high crimes, the articles were finally delivered to the Senate on Tuesday. Republicans in the upper chamber responded by demanding a full impeachment trial. They didn’t get one. As NBC News […]

Senate rejects two impeachment articles against DHS Secretary Mayorkas

U.S. senators being sworn in for the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on April 17, 2024. (Official U.S. Senate photo by Daniel Rios) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday dismissed two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Democrat-controlled chamber voted, 51-49 along party lines, to adjourn the […]

Senate tosses Mayorkas impeachment articles as Rick Scott calls for full trial

The impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was never likely to pass the Senate. Convicting Mayorkas of high crimes and misdemeanors, requiring support from two-thirds of a Democratically controlled chamber, was doomed when two Republicans joined Democrats to strike down the measure’s first vote in the House. It was doomed when the second attempt […]

Maddow Blog | GOP delivers Mayorkas impeachment articles, advancing partisan stunt

It’s been more than a month since House Republicans made history by impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. His GOP detractors couldn’t find any evidence of him committing high crimes, but they nevertheless made Mayorkas the first sitting cabinet secretary in American history to impeached. And then, nothing happened. The idea that this was an […]

House Delivers Impeachment Articles Against Mayorkas, Calling for a Trial

WASHINGTON — After two months of delay, House Republicans on Tuesday delivered articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, to the Senate, as they demanded a full trial of the first sitting Cabinet secretary to be impeached by Congress. Constitutional scholars have called the case against Mayorkas groundless, and the Democrats who […]

Pfluger delivers Articles of Impeachment of DHS Secretary Mayorkas to Senate

Apr. 16—WASHINGTON, D.C. — As a House Impeachment Manager, Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) Tuesday transmitted the Articles of Impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the U.S. Senate. The Articles prove Secretary Mayorkas willfully and systemically refused to comply with the law and breached the public trust. The U.S. Senate is constitutionally […]