Tag: Impeachment

Mayorkas Says He’s ‘Focused on the Work’ After Dodging Impeachment

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, did not take time for a victory lap after surviving a chaotic impeachment vote in the House this week. He hopped a flight to Las Vegas, where he outlined security preparations for the Super Bowl. Impeachment, he insisted on Wednesday, was not at the top of his mind. […]

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Johnson Stumbles, Deepening Republican Disarray and His Own Challenges

When one of the most stinging defeats of his short tenure arrived on Tuesday, Speaker Mike Johnson had put himself front and center in the House chamber, standing in front of the speaker’s ceremonial chair on the upper tier of the rostrum to gavel it down. As Republicans tanked their own bid to impeach Alejandro […]

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Jeffries, Pelosi Enjoying Every Minute of Mike Johnson’s Humiliation

The ruling was “masterful because it combined so many elements” like “constitutional text, judicial precedent, history, and just sheer logic and the party’s own concessions—Trump’s own concessions—just to make an absolutely cohesive whole opinion that just inexorably leads you to the conclusion that he is not immune,” Conway explained. And Trump’s February 12 turnaround is […]

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Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi Are Enjoying Every Second of This

The ruling was “masterful because it combined so many elements” like “constitutional text, judicial precedent, history, and just sheer logic and the party’s own concessions—Trump’s own concessions—just to make an absolutely cohesive whole opinion that just inexorably leads you to the conclusion that he is not immune,” Conway explained. And Trump’s February 12 turnaround is […]

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Here’s Mike Johnson’s Pathetic, Viral Reaction After Brutal Day of Losing

The bribes pose just another monetary loss for an essential housing system that has been woefully underfunded for decades. According to a 2018 NYCHA assessment, federal capital funding has met only a fraction of capital needs since 2006. In the agency’s 2017 physical needs assessment, a five-year financial trajectory for improvements, NYCHA determined that it’s […]

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House GOP Has Buyer’s Remorse With Mike Johnson After So Much Losing

The bribes pose just another monetary loss for an essential housing system that has been woefully underfunded for decades. According to a 2018 NYCHA assessment, federal capital funding has met only a fraction of capital needs since 2006. In the agency’s 2017 physical needs assessment, a five-year financial trajectory for improvements, NYCHA determined that it’s […]

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House Republicans Suddenly Miss Kevin McCarthy After All That Losing

The bribes pose just another monetary loss for an essential housing system that has been woefully underfunded for decades. According to a 2018 NYCHA assessment, federal capital funding has met only a fraction of capital needs since 2006. In the agency’s 2017 physical needs assessment, a five-year financial trajectory for improvements, NYCHA determined that it’s […]

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House Republicans Suddenly Miss Kevin McCarthy After All That Losing

The bribes pose just another monetary loss for an essential housing system that has been woefully underfunded for decades. According to a 2018 NYCHA assessment, federal capital funding has met only a fraction of capital needs since 2006. In the agency’s 2017 physical needs assessment, a five-year financial trajectory for improvements, NYCHA determined that it’s […]

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Al Green, in Hospital Garb, Delivers Vote to Kill Mayorkas Impeachment

With the final minutes for the vote dwindling, the House watched intently on Tuesday night to see whether any more Republicans would defect on the resolution to impeach Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary. Three House Republicans had already cast votes against impeaching Mr. Mayorkas, and based on attendance at the previous vote, the […]

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The Constitution Barely Survives the Mayorkas Vote

Feb. 6, 2024, 4:49 p.m. ET Feb. 6, 2024, 4:49 p.m. ET There it is, the probable answer to why the exit door plug on the Boeing 737 Max Alaska Airlines flight blew out in the air. A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report on the incident, released today, says that four bolts on the […]

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Republican-Led House to Vote on Alejandro Mayorkas Impeachment

The House is set to vote on Tuesday on impeaching Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, on charges that he has willfully refused to enforce border laws and breached the public trust, as Republicans pursue a partisan indictment of President Biden’s immigration policies. But with just hours to go before the planned vote, it […]

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Republican-Led House to Vote on Impeaching Mayorkas Over Border

The House is set to vote on Tuesday on impeaching Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, on charges that he has willfully refused to enforce border laws and breached the public trust, as Republicans pursue a partisan indictment of President Biden’s immigration policies. Republicans are pressing forward despite the assessment of legal experts, including […]

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Alejandro Mayorkas Still Won’t Call It an Immigration Crisis

After months of negotiations, the until-now-secret text of a bipartisan Senate immigration bill may soon be released, with Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, saying a vote could come as soon as next week. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, whose department is responsible for securing the border, has been actively involved in the negotiations, […]

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Is Washington Writing the Script for the Next Forever War?

Many Democrats support either eliminating Social Security’s cap on taxable wages, expanding the types of compensation subject to Social Security payroll taxes—fringe benefits like health insurance, for example—or increasing payroll taxes. “The problem has been that, over time, the amount of revenue that is subject to [Social Security payroll] tax has been declining, partially because […]

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Inside Impeachment’s Rise as a Weapon of Partisan Warfare

If the House follows through on this week’s committee recommendation and impeaches Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, it will be the first time in American history that a sitting cabinet officer has been impeached. But Mr. Mayorkas is not as lonely as all that. Republicans have also filed articles of impeachment against […]

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Impeachment Case Against Mayorkas Ignores Government’s Immigration Powers

House Republicans’ impeachment case against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, boils down to a simple allegation: that he has broken the law by refusing to enforce immigration statutes that aim to prevent migrants from entering the United States without authorization. The Homeland Security Committee approved articles of impeachment against Mr. Mayorkas on a […]

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This Is Republican Governance on Trumpism

Mayorkas would be the first Cabinet secretary in 148 years to be impeached by the House. The first and only one so far to be impeached was William Belknap, who served as secretary of war during the Ulysses Grant administration. At the time, U.S. soldiers in military forts on the western frontier purchased their supplies […]

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The Republicans Are Performing for an Audience of One

Mayorkas would be the first Cabinet secretary in 148 years to be impeached by the House. The first and only one so far to be impeached was William Belknap, who served as secretary of war during the Ulysses Grant administration. At the time, U.S. soldiers in military forts on the Western frontier purchased their supplies […]

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Mayorkas Impeachment Push, and a Militia’s Surprise Move

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MAGA’s Ugly New “Civil War” Fantasy Should be Taken Seriously

Far-right personalities are fantasizing about “civil war” again, amid a standoff between Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the feds over border enforcement. That may seem silly, but unbridgeable differences over immigration truly are driving many big stories of the moment, from that Texas battle to Senate negotiations over a border bill to the House GOP […]

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Mayorkas Impeachment Charges Set for Vote in House Panel

The House Homeland Security Committee is expected to approve articles of impeachment on Tuesday against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, as Republicans race forward with a partisan indictment of President Biden’s immigration policies. In what is expected to be a party-line vote, the panel is poised to charge Mr. Mayorkas with refusing to […]

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House Republicans Release Impeachment Charges Against Mayorkas

House Republicans on Sunday released two articles of impeachment against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, charging President Biden’s top immigration official with refusing to uphold the law and breaching the public trust in his handling of a surge of migration at the U.S. border with Mexico. Leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee […]

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House Republicans Announce Hunter Biden Deposition in Impeachment Inquiry

House Republicans said on Thursday that they had set a deposition date of Feb. 28 to interview Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, their latest bid to secure his cooperation in their impeachment inquiry after he refused an earlier subpoena to testify privately. The announcement by Representatives James R. Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the […]

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House G.O.P. Winds Down Mayorkas Impeachment Without His Public Testimony

House Republicans wrapped up impeachment hearings against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, on Thursday, a little more than a week after the proceedings began, racing to charge him with failing to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. The Republicans are moving ahead without evidence that Mr. Mayorkas has committed high crimes or misdemeanors, the […]

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Trump’s Argument for Immunity in 2024 Is the Opposite of His Stance in 2021

When former President Donald J. Trump appeared before an appeals court in Washington this week to claim he was immune from prosecution for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, one of his lawyers argued that he should not face criminal charges because the Senate had failed to convict him of similar offenses at an […]

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G.O.P. Opens Mayorkas Impeachment Push With No Evidence of High Crimes

House Republicans on Wednesday kicked off formal impeachment hearings against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, accusing him of willfully failing to enforce immigration laws even as leading constitutional experts said there was no basis to do so. The G.O.P. drive to impeach Mr. Mayorkas is the latest escalation in the party’s effort to […]

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Trump’s Boldest Argument Yet: Immunity From Prosecution for Assassinations

Eight years ago, just before the Iowa caucuses, Donald J. Trump crowed about his invulnerability. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” he said. “It’s, like, incredible.” On Tuesday, at a federal appeals court argument held the week before this year’s caucuses, a […]

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Trump’s Case for Total Immunity

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Mayorkas Impeachment and Border Talks Put House and Senate G.O.P. at Odds

This week in the Republican-led House, G.O.P. representatives plan to kick off their formal effort to impeach Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary who has been one of their favorite punching bags. Over in the Senate, a group of Republicans is pressing to finalize and announce an emerging deal they have negotiated with Mr. […]

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Trump’s Most Ambitious Argument in His Bid for ‘Absolute Immunity’

There is almost nothing in the words of the Constitution that even begins to support former President Donald J. Trump’s boldest defense against charges that he plotted to overturn the 2020 election: that he is absolutely immune from prosecution for actions he took while in office. A federal appeals court will hear arguments on the […]

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House Republicans Target Biden by Focusing on His Son’s News Conference

House Republicans said Wednesday they were investigating whether President Biden was involved in his son Hunter Biden’s decision to defy a congressional subpoena in their latest attempt to link the White House to accusations against the president’s son. The chairmen of the Oversight and Judiciary Committees wrote a letter to Ed Siskel, the White House […]

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