Mar. 28—WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman August Pfluger joined Speaker Mike Johnson and the House impeachment managers Thursday in sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calling on the Senate to expeditiously schedule an impeachment trial of Department of Homeland Secretary (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas, following the House’s vote to approve two articles of impeachment […]
The US House of Representatives will send articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden‘s immigration chief to the Senate on April 10, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday — sparking a trial that would likely begin the following day. House Republicans blame Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a Democrat, for a surge in illegal entries […]
WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced on Thursday that he plans to send articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10, calling on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to hold a full trial and hear GOP arguments in favor of Mayorkas being ousted […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday indicated he will send articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate shortly after Congress returns to Washington next month. The Republican speaker said he would send the two articles on April 10. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to swear in […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will deliver two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10, House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday. Mayorkas, who Republicans blame for record flows of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, was narrowly impeached by the House last month on […]
A California man was sentenced to 11 months in prison for making threatening calls to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. David Carrier, 44, of Concord, had pleaded guilty to two counts of making threats against public officials in December 2023. Federal prosecutors had only […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the third time in five years, senators will be sworn in as jurors for an impeachment trial. But the chamber is expected to spend far less time on the charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas than the ones brought against former President Donald Trump — or maybe no time at […]
Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives had a vote to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas (“Gallagher vote helps block impeachment of Mayorkas,” Feb. 8). This was a breath of fresh air. In my rather lengthy lifetime, I have only heard the word impeachment several times, though recently it has become […]
In the historic Feb. 13 impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, House Republicans said the Homeland Security secretary “willfully and systematically refused to comply with immigration laws” and “breached public trust” by falsely telling Congress the U.S.-Mexico border was secure. This is the second time in U.S. history that a Cabinet member has been impeached; the first […]
Alejandro Mayorkas may now hold the distinction as the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached since 1876. But in the days since that House vote, the Homeland Security secretary has acted as if nothing ever happened. That’s by design. The White House is hoping to demonstrate that it is business as usual at DHS, eager […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Green on Wednesday announced that he won’t run for a fourth term, pointing to the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas just the day before as among the reasons it is “time for me to return home.” “Our country – and our Congress – is […]
GOP members narrowly voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday. The impeachment happened a week after the Senate’s bipartisan border and foreign aid bill failed. Like most of the House GOP’s legislation this session, the impeachment was performative. Republicans in the House of Representatives successfully —but just barely — voted to impeach […]