On Tuesday, Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson, the House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member, slammed Greene for using DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s “sham impeachment” to raise money. The comments came as both representatives attended a hearing about the potential impeachment.
Poor show
“Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and others,” Thompson said, “have pushed for and even fundraised based on this pre-planned, predetermined scapegoating of the Secretary.”
Baseless process
Thompson compared the Republican effort to impeach Mayorkas to “throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.” Thompson added, “Republicans have cooked up vague, unprecedented grounds to impeach Secretary Mayorkas.”
Moving forward
On Wednesday, the House Homeland Security Committee, which includes Greene, approved two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas. The vote was 18-15 along party lines.
The accusations
Mayorkas is being charged with “refusing to uphold the law and breaching the public trust” due to his handling of the situation at the border, according to the New York Times. As the Times noted, Republicans have not produced any evidence that Mayorkas committed a crime or any acts of corruption.
Justification
Instead, Republicans want to impeach Mayorkas on the grounds that he failed to uphold Biden’s border policies. Republicans also argued that those policies were insufficient and even illegal.
Shaky grounds
According to the New York Times, “legal scholars, including prominent conservatives, have argued that the effort is a perversion of the constitutional power of impeachment.” If Republicans succeed in their efforts, Mayorkas will become the first cabinet secretary to be impeached in almost 150 years.
Political machinations
Republicans “don’t want progress,” Thompson argued. “They don’t want solutions. They want a political issue.” He noted that neither impeachment charge was “a high crime or misdemeanor.”
Conservative skepticism
In November, Greene attempted to force Mayorkas’s immediate impeachment. Eight House Republicans refused to support the plan.
Continued holdouts
Some of those eight have since said they will support impeachment. Others remain unsure. Rep. Ken Buck, for example, said on Tuesday that he believed the impeachment would be “moving in the wrong direction.”
Impossible standards
“To say that someone was incompetent — we wouldn’t have anybody in Congress if the standard was competence,” Buck said. “I’m a ‘lean no.’”
Denials
“You claim that we have failed to enforce our immigration laws,” Mayorkas wrote on Tuesday. “That is false.” The secretary dismissed the allegations against him as “baseless and inaccurate.”
Shifting attention
Democrats on the Homeland Security Panel wrote that Republicans were “playing the political blame game to deflect attention from their failure to take meaningful action on border security and immigration legislation and provide necessary border security funding.” They accused Republicans of “perpetuating challenges at the border to help re-elect Donald Trump.”
No solutions
Trump has repeatedly called on Republicans to oppose Biden’s border deal. On Thursday, the Guardian reported that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would abandon the agreement, saying it could “undermine” Trump’s chances in the upcoming election.
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