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Title: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 12:23:19 am: Breaking...

214-213
Title: Re: U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 12:24:13 am: https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1757560709049721336
Title: Re: U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 12:24:50 am: Greg Price
@greg_price11
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Mayorkas is only the second cabinet secretary to ever be impeached.

The first was Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876
Title: Re: U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 12:25:50 am: 3 Repubs vote NO

2 didn't vote... 9999hair out0000
Title: Re: U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 12:26:27 am: https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1757561249183735969
Title: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 12:27:56 am: https://twitter.com/TheCalvinCooli1/status/1757560573057810542
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 12:30:28 am: LeoTerrell
@TheLeoTerrell
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Mayorkas has been impeached! Next Joe Biden
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 12:37:45 am: https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1757563933836099925
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: rustynail on February 14, 2024, 12:39:54 am: That will show him.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 12:43:19 am: Derek Hunter
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The incompetent, smug Secretary of Homeland Security who is obeying the President's orders to ignore federal immigration law has been impeached.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: libertybele on February 14, 2024, 12:43:25 am: I thought that they had already voted and the impeachment failed?

Truly glad to see this. happy77
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 02:08:11 am: John Bresnahan
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Per @SenSchumer
’s office, “The House impeachment managers will present the articles of impeachment to the Senate following the state work period. Senators will be sworn in as jurors in the trial the next day. Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray will preside.”
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: kevindavis007 on February 14, 2024, 02:25:39 am: Big whoop.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: libertybele on February 14, 2024, 02:27:55 am: Quote from: kevindavis007 on February 14, 2024, 02:25:39 am
Big whoop.

Yes, indeed it is.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 02:40:07 am: Biden: ‘History will not look kindly’ on House GOP who voted to impeach Mayorkas
by Alex Gangitano - 02/13/24 8:18 PM ET

President Biden on Tuesday slammed Republicans who voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, arguing that history will not look kindly on those lawmakers.

After a failed first effort to impeach Mayorkas, House Republicans eked out a narrow 214-213 vote to impeach the first Cabinet official since the 1870s.

“History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games,” Biden said in a statement after the vote.

The White House argued before the vote that the impeachment effort against Mayorkas was unconstitutional and politically motivated. Biden on Tuesday noted that Mayorkas is a Cuban immigrant who came to the U.S. as a political refugee with his family and has spent more than two decades in public service.

He also said that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rejected the legislation a group of senators unveiled last week that included measures to tighten security at the border, as well as aid to Ukraine and Israel. The Speaker called it insufficient and dead on arrival in the House. Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have indicated Johnson killed the bill to allow former President Trump, the GOP front-runner, to run on the border as a political issue against Biden.

“Instead of staging political stunts like this, Republicans with genuine concerns about the border should want Congress to deliver more border resources and stronger border security,” Biden said. “Sadly, the same Republicans pushing this baseless impeachment are rejecting bipartisan plans Secretary Mayorkas and others in my administration have worked hard on to strengthen border security at this very moment — reversing from years of their own demands to pass stronger border bills.”

more
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4466631-biden-history-will-not-look-kindly-on-house-gop-who-voted-to-impeach-mayorkas/
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: Hoodat on February 14, 2024, 03:03:49 am: Quote from: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 12:37:45 am
Jacqui Heinrich
@JacquiHeinrich
President Biden with a lengthy response to Mayorkas impeachment: “History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games….

So partisanship is now "unconstitutional"?

Here's what the Constitution says:

Article IV, Section 4

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion

This is what Mayorkas swore an oath to uphold and defend. It is he who has violated his oath and his responsibility.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: DefiantMassRINO on February 14, 2024, 03:16:00 am: The Republicans who voted to impeach Mayorkas were doing their jobs, unlike Mayorkas who is not doing his job.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: HikerGuy83 on February 14, 2024, 03:18:29 am: Quote from: libertybele on February 14, 2024, 02:27:55 am
Yes, indeed it is.

Why ?

He's not going anywhere.

You've just pissed him off.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: HikerGuy83 on February 14, 2024, 03:20:32 am: Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on February 14, 2024, 03:16:00 am
The Republicans who voted to impeach Mayorkas were doing their jobs, unlike Mayorkas who is not doing his job.

Mayorkas certainly isn't doing his job.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin on February 14, 2024, 03:40:40 am: The Senate may not even take it up, but they likely will because they know they'll get an acquittal, which they'll then rub in the faces of Republicans.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 14, 2024, 04:26:53 am: Quote from: HikerGuy83 on February 14, 2024, 03:18:29 am
Why ?

He's not going anywhere.

You've just pissed him off.

Pissed who off? Mayorkas?

Uh oh.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: GtHawk on February 14, 2024, 05:23:31 am: Quote from: Cyber Liberty on February 14, 2024, 04:26:53 am
Pissed who off? Mayorkas?

Uh oh.
Oh CRAP, pissed off Mayorkas, so what's he gonna do, NOT not enforce Federal law and secure the border? Oh wait, that's why they impeached him. Why is it there always people that call themselves conservative but are always against doing the right thing because it might piss off some POS democrat? What was the BS Mayorkas said in a hearing, I think in response to a republican talking about impeaching him, something like 'you won't like what happens next'? Can Mayorkas open the border any wider than it already is? They need to start bussing migrants right to Mayorkas's front door 9999hair out0000
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: AL on February 14, 2024, 09:26:34 am: About time. Sadly, the Senate will never allow this.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: Wingnut on February 14, 2024, 10:11:52 am: Quote from: HikerGuy83 on February 14, 2024, 03:18:29 am

You've just pissed him off.

He needs to be pissed on.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: Polly Ticks on February 14, 2024, 01:00:43 pm: Quote
DHS response: “House Republicans will be remembered by history for trampling on the Constitution for political gain rather than working to solve the serious challenges at our border.”

They always accuse you of doing what they themselves are actually doing, don't they.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: catfish1957 on February 14, 2024, 01:23:21 pm: Quote from: Wingnut on February 14, 2024, 10:11:52 am
He needs to be pissed on.

I guess the only possible point of political gain, will be that every dim now will have to go on record of supporting the guy who is the poster boy of this disaster.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 02:28:16 pm: GOP Rep. Buck: ‘Terrible Impeachment’ of Mayorkas Sets ‘Terrible Precedent’

Representative Ken Buck (R-CO) said Tuesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that the impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas was “terrible” because it sets a “terrible precedent.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/13/gop-rep-buck-terrible-impeachment-of-mayorkas-sets-terrible-precedent/
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on February 14, 2024, 02:39:41 pm: So what will this accomplish really? Senate will vote to acquit and the GOP will be handed a defeat. It is just an empty gesture to satisfy the base.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin on February 14, 2024, 03:25:33 pm: Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on February 14, 2024, 02:39:41 pm
So what will this accomplish really? Senate will vote to acquit and the GOP will be handed a defeat. It is just an empty gesture to satisfy the base.

That seems to be the MAGA agenda at this point.
Title: Re: BREAKING>> U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 03:32:44 pm: NEW: Senate Impeachment Trial of DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas Set for Late February
Susie Moore

On Tuesday evening, as RedState reported, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas with a razor-thin 214-213 passage of the resolution.

Although the prospect of a conviction in the Senate is highly unlikely, the vote nevertheless requires that a trial be held in the upper chamber. And it appears that will be sometime in late February, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's office, with Senate President Pro Tem Patty Murray presiding over the proceeding.

Also on Tuesday evening, Democrat Tom Suozzi won his old House seat (NY-03) back in a special election, replacing Republican George Santos following his expulsion from Congress. With the outcome of that race looming, House Republicans likely knew they needed to hold the vote quickly or risk not being able to pass the resolution.

3) That’s one of the reasons the House GOPers wanted to vote tonight.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) February 14, 2024

more
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/02/14/new-senate-impeachment-trial-of-alejandro-mayorkas-set-for-late-february-n2170097
Title: Re: U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 15, 2024, 08:14:17 am: Quote from: mystery-ak on February 14, 2024, 12:25:50 am
3 Repubs vote NO

2 didn't vote... 9999hair out0000
Who were they?
Title: Re: U.S. House has just impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Post by: GtHawk on February 15, 2024, 04:26:12 pm: Quote from: Smokin Joe on February 15, 2024, 08:14:17 am
Who were they?
I don't know their names but I have their picture (https://i.imgur.com/lZK1ZOE.jpeg)