Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took to ABC’s This Week Sunday to defend President Biden’s recent executive order that temporarily shuts down sections of the U.S. border with Mexico to asylum seekers. The measure, which went into effect after receiving Biden’s signature last week, will effectively block most migrants (with some exceptions) who attempt to […]
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Biden administration ready for court challenges to border policy, Mayorkas says
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration is prepared to defend in court the sweeping asylum policy put into place at the U.S.-Mexico border last week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday that generally bars migrants who illegally cross the […]
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 […]
MO, KS Republicans called for full impeachment trial of Mayorkas. Democrats dismissed them
The impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was never likely to pass the Senate. Convicting Mayorkas of high crimes and misdemeanors, which required support from two-thirds of a Democratic-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 […]
Senate quickly votes to dismiss impeachment articles against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats successfully voted to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, just hours after the trial formally opened. The speed of the impeachment trial was an embarrassing blow to Republicans who had threatened to gum up the Senate and delay the proceedings in a bid to […]
Senate Democrats unceremoniously kill Mayorkas impeachment trial
The Senate voted on party lines to effectively end Alejandro Mayorkas’s impeachment trial. GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted “present” on both votes. It caps off a months-long drama that helped spur one House Republican’s resignation. And just like that, it’s over. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats voted to declare as unconstitutional both articles of impeachment against Department […]
Mayorkas impeachment should be dismissed, US Senate Majority Leader Schumer says
By Richard Cowan, Makini Brice and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The impeachment of President Joe Biden‘s top border official put forward by the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives should be dismissed, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday. The House on Tuesday delivered two articles of impeachment charging Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas […]
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 […]