Member LoginMember Login - User registration - Setup as front page - Add to favorites - Sitemap Impeachment articles against Mayorkas to be sent to Senate !

Impeachment articles against Mayorkas to be sent to Senate

Time:2024-05-07 15:24:44 source:Stellar Spectacle news portal

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson says he is sending impeachment charges against Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday, forcing senators to convene a trial on the allegations that the Homeland Security secretary has “willfully and systematically” refused to enforce existing immigration laws. But the proceedings may not last long.

While the Senate is obligated to convene a trial under the rules of impeachment once the charges are walked across the Capitol, Democrats are expected to try to dismiss or table the charges before the arguments get underway.

Majority Democrats have said the GOP case against Mayorkas doesn’t rise to the “high crimes and misdemeanors” laid out as a bar for impeachment in the Constitution, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., likely has enough votes to end the trial immediately if he decides to do so. The proceedings will not begin until Wednesday.

Related information
  • Outrage as pro
  • China calls for strengthened flood control in Yangtze, Taihu Lake basins
  • Playoff hopes fading for troubled Crusaders in Super Rugby Pacific
  • Inside A Place In The Sun presenter Danni Menzies' luxurious holiday in the Cayman Islands
  • Boeing calls off Starliner launch due to rocket issue
  • Celtics were beaten at their own game at 3
  • Connor Wong homers twice, Rafael Devers connects for solo shot as Red Sox hammer Guardians 8
  • Hamas releases video showing well
Recommended content
  • Wisconsin judge dismisses lawsuit challenging state's new wolf management plan
  • AP PHOTOS: Russian kids ride sticks with a horse's head in hobby horsing competition
  • Inside A Place In The Sun presenter Danni Menzies' luxurious holiday in the Cayman Islands
  • Burkina Faso's army massacred over 200 civilians in a village raid, Human Rights Watch says
  • After AP's missing students investigation, children return to school
  • Dutch TV series about Queen Maxima of the Netherlands has been sold to Spain's Atresmedia TV