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Apr 16 2024
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Mayorkas feuds with GOP as Senate begins long-delayed impeachment
The House finally delivered articles impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday, kicking off what’s expected to be an abbreviated process Democrats have vowed will end in acquittal. Rep. Mark Green led 10 fellow Republicans in marching the two articles across the Capitol, reading the 19-page indictment in its entirety into the Senate record. Senators
Washington TimesApr 17 2024
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Senate Dismisses Impeachment Charges Against Mayorkas Without a Trial
The Senate on Wednesday dismissed the impeachment case against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, voting along party lines before his trial got underway to sweep aside two charges accusing him of failing to enforce immigration laws and breaching the public trust.
By a vote of 51 to 48, with one senator voting “present,” the Senate ruled that the first charge was
New York Times (News)Apr 09 2024
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Mayorkas' impeachment proceedings pushed to next week: Speaker Johnson
The process will start next week, Speaker Johnson said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson's office said Tuesday that it will delay the transmission of two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas -- pushing the process' start until next week.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
ABC News (Online)Apr 11 2024
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Handful of vulnerable Dems will decide fate of Mayorkas impeachment trial
A handful of Democratic senators in vulnerable election contests in November could decide whether there's an impeachment trial for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. "We have to look at the impeachment documents first," Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., told reporters Tuesday in a departure from his previous suggestion the impeachment amounted to "political games." The
Fox News (Online News)Apr 09 2024
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Chuck Schumer: Mayorkas Impeachment Will Be Resolved 'as Quickly as Possible'
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says the articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are “absurd” and that he will “resolve this as quickly as possible.” As reports circulate that Schumer is readying a motion to dismiss articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, the majority leader suggested to the media on Tuesday that he is
Breitbart NewsApr 09 2024
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House Republicans postpone sending Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate
Washington — House Republicans postponed sending the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate until next week, amid concerns over the timing of an impeachment trial that Senate Democrats are expected to quickly move to dismiss. "To ensure the Senate has adequate time to perform its constitutional duty, the House will transmit the articles of
CBS News (Online)Apr 15 2024
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Republicans warn Mayorkas to hand over files on suspected criminal migrants
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are threatening to try to force Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to cough up the government files on more than a dozen migrants allegedly connected to serious crimes. Panel Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) requested some of the Department of Homeland Security files as far back as October and accused Mayorkas’s agency of dragging its feet
New York Post (News)Jan 12 2024
Opinion
Impeach Mayorkas
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas doesn’t bear ultimate responsibility for the administration’s lawless policy at the southern border. He is merely the implementer and the symbol of President Biden’s dereliction, but he is still willfully failing to do his duty and thus a fit subject for impeachment.
On Wednesday, Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee
National Review (Opinion)Apr 17 2024
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Senate Democrats kill both articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Both articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas were deemed unconstitutional by the Senate on Wednesday in two party-line votes.
The first of two articles of impeachment alleged Mayorkas engaged in the "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" regarding the southern border in his capacity as DHS secretary. The second claimed
Fox News (Opinion)Apr 17 2024
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Exclusive: Mayorkas' newest weapon against the explosion of online child sex exploitation
WASHINGTON – Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says his office is ramping up efforts to fight the explosive increase in online sexual exploitation of children. Highlighting the severity of the issue, Mayorkas noted that last year alone, there were over 36 million reports of suspected online child sexual exploitation and abuse − up from 32 million in 2022. By
"USA Today" Contributor