Is anyone even paying attention to these impeachments?
I feel like Don’s trial is sucking so much wind out of the room, these aren’t even getting footnotes.
The whole purpose of this “impeachment” was to distract the country from Trump’s woes. They tried to keep the focus on Hunter/Joe Biden, but that fizzled out, so they needed a new target. Mayorkas was just the ticket (especially funny after the GQP downed the most friendly border bill they’ll ever see)
The whole purpose of this “impeachment”
Yeah I agree, but damn if they haven’t done a shit job of selling it. Also, when your key witness the whole thing is predicated on goes to jail for lying about the key claims of them being a witness…
Its a veritable nothing-burger feast.
Bread and Circuses for the base
This clown tastes funny.
That’s sort of the intention though. Make as many impeachments seem as meaningless as possible so you don’t remember Trump’s being dismissed immediately. Normalize impeachments. Normalize criminal trials. Normalize civil trials.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Republicans argue that President Joe Biden has been weak on the border as arrests for illegal crossings skyrocketed to more than 2 million people during the last two years of his term, though they have fallen from a record-high of 250,000 in December amid heightened enforcement in Mexico.
The House narrowly voted in February to impeach Mayorkas for his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border, arguing in the two articles that he “willfully and systematically” refused to enforce immigration laws.
As Johnson signed the articles Monday in preparation for sending them across the Capitol, he said Schumer should convene a trial to “hold those who engineered this crisis to full account.”
At the same time, Romney said he wants to at least express his view that “Mayorkas has done a terrible job, but he’s following the direction of the president and has not met the constitutional test of a high crime or misdemeanor.”
While there is sufficient precedent for this approach, Democrats may prefer to end the process completely, especially in a presidential election year when immigration and border security are top issues.
At a trial, senators would be forced to sit in their seats for the duration, maybe weeks, while the House impeachment managers and lawyers representing Mayorkas make their cases.
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