The Republican-controlled House voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The vote marks the first time in nearly 150 years that a Cabinet secretary has been impeached.
House Republicans have spent months investigating the secretary’s actions as they’ve aimed to make immigration and border security a key election issue.
Question: does impeachment mean anything, i mean they impeached trump twice i believe and still sat there till the end
It has effectively become a political stunt unless one party controls both wings of Congress, at which point it will become a way to remove anyone they dislike for any reason
Which is the point of this. They’re running a twice impeached candidate.
Their purpose is to make impeachment a common, meaningless political stunt.
The house impeaches with a majority of votes for the members present at the time.
Next it has to pass the Senate trial. The Senate is 49 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 3 independent. A couple Democrats also tend to side with Republicans. Since he has been impeached, a trial happens in the Senate and 2/3 majority has to agree to remove from office.
I’d assume unless someone fucked up really badly and both sides hate them it is very unlikely for a 2/3 majority.
Ah ok.
Impeachment is like being charged with a crime; removal is like being convicted. Trump was impeached, but not removed
It goes to the Senate for “trial” to vote on removing Mayorkas from office.