House Speaker Mike Johnson will send articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate shortly after Congress returns to Washington next month.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during an interview, in Guatemala City, Thursday, March 21, 2024. Mayorkas said at a joint conference with the Guatemalan president, that a Texas law giving state authorities the power to arrest and deport migrants who have entered the country illegally is unconstitutional.
on a razor-thin party-line vote in February, but Johnson had delayed sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate while Congress addressed funding for the government.Impeachment for Mayorkas, who would be the first Cabinet secretary to receive the punishment in nearly 150 years, isin the Democratic-controlled Senate.
But Johnson argued in a statement that Mayorkas has “violated the public trust and willfully refused to follow federal immigration laws.” Still, some GOP senators have expressed skepticism about the House argument, and a conviction is highly unlikely. Two-thirds of the Senate would have to vote to convict as opposed to the simple majority needed to impeach in the House. That means all Republicans as well as a substantial number of Democrats would have to vote to convict Mayorkas.
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