The House should impeach the entire Biden administration

When House Democrats, led by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), impeached then-President Donald Trump in 2019, the procedure was a spectacle of feigned seriousness for one of the most blatantly partisan acts in U.S. history.

The two impeachment counts, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, were passed on a party-line vote and established a new standard that every president can be easily impeached if the opposing party controls the House of Representatives.

On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled House voted along party lines to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the first impeachment of a Cabinet secretary since 1876. And while three Republicans voted against it, claiming there was no basis for the impeachment, the vote was an act of pure political power that the Republicans should extend to the rest of the administration.

In Federalist Paper 65, Alexander Hamilton, who helped draft the Constitution, explains that impeaching an officer of the United States is fundamentally a political action.