GOP debates impeaching Merrick Garland after McCarthy surprise

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 GOP debates impeaching Merrick Garland after McCarthy surprise
by Rebecca Beitsch and Emily Brooks - 07/18/23 6:00 AM ET

House Republicans are debating whether to focus impeachment efforts on Attorney General Merrick Garland after Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) suggested an inquiry against him, taking some members by surprise after much of the GOP impeachment furor had been directed at other Biden officials.

In a year where the GOP has been most steadily focused on possible impeachments of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas or President Biden, McCarthy often has been the voice urging the conference to move patiently and deliberately.

But he has shown more vigor when eyeing Garland, an official leading an agency often derided by the GOP but a figure less frequently cited by the party’s members who are most keen on impeachment.

McCarthy first elevated the topic with a tweet late last month touting testimony of an IRS whistleblower who has alleged mismanagement of the investigation into Hunter Biden, saying it could serve as “a significant part of a larger impeachment inquiry.”

But the conference — though eager to investigate — hasn’t rushed to back the idea, with some questioning whether there is a legal basis for impeaching Garland and others saying different Cabinet secretaries should be reviewed first.

“I don’t know of a chargeable crime,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told The Hill.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4102156-gop-debates-impeaching-merrick-garland-after-mccarthy-surprise/

[GtHawk]

Sounds like McCarthy is trying to get the republicans spinning spinning their wheels and keeping them from doing real work by chumming the water.

[libertybele]

Sounds like McCarthy is trying to get the republicans spinning spinning their wheels and keeping them from doing real work by chumming the water.

No legal basis for impeaching Garland???  Seriously.  Here we sit.  The GOP once again has no backbone.

[GtHawk]

No legal basis for impeaching Garland???  Seriously.  Here we sit.  The GOP once again has no backbone.

I'm sure there are grounds for impeaching Garland but I think all that would happen with investigations and hearings is distracting congress from attacking more important issues and actually accomplishing nothing.

[Kamaji]

Great.  So the republican House wastes a great deal of time running through a pointless trial - pointless because the Democrat-controlled Senate will never vote to convict him - and then we hand the democrats another great talking point for the 2024 elections, namely that republicans are do-nothings who waste all of Congress' time dealing with petty revenge rather than attending to the country's business.