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Lawmaker Flops,
Will Run Again
After Trump Call
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Lawmaker Flops, Will Run Again After Trump Call

Mark Green had announced he was quitting after Mayorkas impeachment vote

(Newser) - After being lobbied in calls from "constituents, colleagues, and President Trump," Rep. Mark Green has reversed his decision to retire from Congress. Trump welcomed Green's unretirement in a Truth Social post on Thursday and said he'll endorse him, Axios reports. Reelection would keep the Tennessee lawmaker...

Report: Senators Will Swiftly Toss Impeachment

Sources tell 'New York Times' Senate could dismiss Mayorkas impeachment within days

(Newser) - The House's impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was a months-long process, but the Senate might take just days to reject it. Sources tell the New York Times that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer hasn't decided exactly how to deal with the impeachment, but House managers plan...

House Votes to Impeach Mayorkas
House Votes to
Impeach Mayorkas

House Votes to Impeach Mayorkas

Second vote finished 214-213 in favor of impeaching Homeland Security chief

(Newser) - The US House voted 214-213 Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, with the Republican majority determined to punish the Biden administration over its handling of the US—Mexico border. It was second time lucky for House Republicans. The measure failed in a 214-216 vote last week. With the...

House GOP Takes Another Shot at Impeaching Mayorkas

But they can't afford to have many defections or absences in Tuesday evening vote

(Newser) - Having failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas the first time, House Republicans are determined to try again Tuesday, but it's not at all certain the do-over vote will produce a better tally after last week's politically embarrassing setback . The evening vote is expected to be tight...

Days After Bucking GOP, Lawmaker Says He's Quitting

Mike Gallagher voted against impeachment measure on Tuesday

(Newser) - Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher, who broke with the Republican Party on an impeachment vote Tuesday—bringing him the threat of a primary challenge—announced Saturday that he's leaving Congress. Gallagher told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he will enter the private sector instead of running for reelection in November and...

How the Mayorkas Impeachment Failed

Democratic Rep. Al Green rushed to the House still wearing hospital garb

(Newser) - House Speaker Mike Johnson is taking flak from fellow Republicans after Tuesday's failed attempt to impeach Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Johnson had expressed confidence that he had enough votes for impeachment despite the razor-thin GOP majority, but the measure failed in a 214-216 vote after three Republicans voted against...

House Votes Against Impeaching Mayorkas
House Votes Against
Impeaching Mayorkas
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House Votes Against Impeaching Mayorkas

Measure failed in 214-216 vote

(Newser) - This story has been updated with new developments. The House held a historic vote Tuesday on impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas—and the move was shot down in a massive defeat for House Speaker Mike Johnson. The speaker had insisted he had enough votes for impeachment, but the measure...

House Preps for Historic Cabinet Impeachment Vote
House Preps for Historic
Cabinet Impeachment Vote
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House Preps for Historic Cabinet Impeachment Vote

Republicans hope to impeach DHS secretary Mayorkas, but the margin is slim

(Newser) - With an unprecedented vote, lawmakers will decide Tuesday evening whether Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas becomes the first Cabinet member impeached by the House in nearly 150 years. The House will vote on two articles of impeachment advanced by the Republican-controlled House Homeland Security Committee. Here's what to know:...

House Panel OKs Impeachment Charges Against Mayorkas

House plans quick vote on removing homeland security secretary

(Newser) - House Republicans voted along party lines after midnight Wednesday to move toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a "willful and systematic" refusal to enforce immigration laws, the AP reports. The Homeland Security Committee debated all day Tuesday and well into the night before recommending two articles of...

House GOP Pushes Ahead With Mayorkas Impeachment

Panel debates sending articles to full House

(Newser) - "The actions and decisions of Secretary Mayorkas have left us with no other option but to proceed with articles of impeachment," Republican Rep. Mark Green said Tuesday at the start of a daylong hearing on sending the articles detailed Sunday to the full House. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro...

House Takes Step Toward Impeaching DHS Chief

Republicans accuse Mayorkas of failing to enforce immigration laws

(Newser) - House Republicans took another step Wednesday toward making Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas the first Cabinet member to be impeached since William Belknap, President Ulysses Grant's secretary of war, in 1876. The House Homeland Security committee held the first in a series of hearings that could lead to articles...

House GOP to Hunter Biden: We'll Hold You in Contempt

They demand closed-door testimony in impeachment inquiry; Biden wants public hearing

(Newser) - House Republicans are threatening to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress if he doesn't sit for a closed-door deposition next week. For a second time Wednesday, Republicans rebuffed Biden's offer to publicly testify before the House Oversight Committee leading the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, per Axios...

8 Republicans Side With Dems in Mayorkas Impeachment Vote

House pushes off effort to impeach Homeland Security secretary

(Newser) - The House voted Monday to push off a Republican effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ending for now a threat against the Cabinet secretary that has been brewing ever since Republicans took the House majority in January, the AP reports. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene forced a vote on...

Republican Vote Holds as Texas Senate Acquits Paxton

GOP House had approved impeachment, but party-line verdict restores attorney general to office

(Newser) - Republicans in the Texas Senate came to Attorney General Ken Paxton's aid on Saturday, delivering an acquittal of the impeached official on a vote at the Capitol in Austin. Paxton faced 16 articles of impeachment, each of which required 21 votes, a two-thirds majority, for conviction. On every charge,...

Prosecutors Abruptly Rest Case in Texas AG's Impeachment

After alleged mistress shows up, does not testify

(Newser) - The prosecution in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's impeachment trial rested its case Wednesday in what media outlets are painting as a surprise move that was preceded by another surprise, the appearance—but failure to testify—of the AG's alleged mistress, a central figure in the case . Paxton...

6 Takes on the Biden Impeachment Inquiry
6 Takes on the Biden
Impeachment Inquiry
OPINION

6 Takes on the Biden Impeachment Inquiry

Opinions range from 'it's a no brainer' to 'nothing ... justifies the drastic step'

(Newser) - The US faces a third possible impeachment of a president in less than four years. GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, launched Tuesday , comes in response to "allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption." Some onlookers agree with the reasoning, claiming...

Affair Will Be Central to Paxton's Impeachment Trial
Affair Will Be
Central to Paxton's
Impeachment Trial
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Affair Will Be Central to Paxton's Impeachment Trial

Texas attorney general allegedly accepted bribes from developer who hired his girlfriend

(Newser) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment by the state Senate in a trial that will largely focus on an extramarital affair. As the Texas Tribune reports, the trial beginning Tuesday and expected to last two to three weeks "could air out the sordid details of the staunch, Christian...

McCarthy: Biden Impeachment Inquiry May Be Considered

'We will follow this to the end,' he says of investigation of Biden family finances

(Newser) - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry of President Biden over unproven claims of financial misconduct, responding to enormous GOP pressure to demonstrate support for Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election. In remarks Tuesday at the Capitol, McCarthy said the questions House Republicans...

McCarthy Threatens to Open Garland Impeachment Inquiry

White House official says GOP is trying to distract from tax cut plans

(Newser) - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has upped the ante in Republicans' allegations that the Justice Department is making prosecutorial decisions based on politics, suggesting that Attorney General Merrick Garland could face an impeachment inquiry. In a tweet , McCarthy tied the threat to IRS whistleblowers' contentions that a tax crime investigation included...

McCarthy Is Ready to Wipe Trump's Record Clean

GOP House speaker says he supports conservative effort to expunge former president's 2 impeachments

(Newser) - Former President Donald Trump was the first US president to have two impeachments under his belt, and he might become the first one to have two impeachments wiped from his history—at least, that's the hope of some conservatives who are pushing to make sure that happens. GOP House...

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