Mayorkas Escapes Historic Impeachment Vote

In a dramatic embarrassment for Republicans, the House on Tuesday narrowly rejected impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border after a small group of Republicans broke with their party. The deeply partisan effort charged Mayorkas with failing to properly enforce the nation’s immigration laws amid a record surge of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and breaching the public’s trust. But constitutional scholars warned that the evidence amounted to a policy dispute that does not reach the high bar of impeachment and could degrade the...