Border security

[happyhoix]

The GOP is trying to impeach the guy in charge of border security for allowing hundreds of thousands of migrants to cross the border is also, at the same time, trying to kill a border security bill that experts are calling the toughest border security bill ever. The GOP would rather do nothing to fix the border security problem at all in order to give Trump at least one thing to run on - border security.

Just who is more treasonous?

[djAdvocate]

it is the same policy that Trump had for three years.

was that treasonous?

[Tennesseer]

House GOP faces pointed conservative criticism on Mayorkas impeachment

A growing number of conservative voices are encouraging House Republicans to drop their campaign to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, arguing the GOP has not met the constitutional bar for removing him from office.

Articles of impeachment for Mayorkas accuse him of violating immigration laws that require the detention of all migrants — something no administration has ever done — as well as a “breach of public trust.”

But notable conservatives have said those arguments fall far short of the high crimes and misdemeanors standard set out in the constitution.

Alan Dershowitz, who represented former President Trump in his first impeachment trial, accused House Republicans on Tuesday of using “double standards” in backing “vague” charges against Mayorkas when they refused to do so for the former president. Any backers, he said, are “distorting the Constitution.”

Legal expert and regular GOP witness Jonathan Turley said they had no “cognizable basis” for impeachment, while Michael Chertoff, a Republican who led the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under former President George W. Bush, wrote in an op-ed that House Republicans have “failed to put forth evidence that meets the bar.”

The conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board dropped a critical take amid the House Homeland Security Committee’s marathon markup of the articles, writing that a Mayorkas impeachment “achieves nothing” while backing a key Democratic argument in calling the matter a policy dispute.

Dershowitz was one of the most critical of the House GOP articles, saying it would be hypocritical to support a Mayorkas impeachment when lawmakers rejected arguments for Trump that the attorney pegged as not fitting the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Rest of article here: House GOP faces pointed conservative criticism on Mayorkas impeachment

[happyhoix]

Yeah I heard this referred to as a policy dispute.

This is kind of like how the Trumps are fine business men but the Biden’s are an immense criminal family.

[billisonboard]

Jan 31, 2024 15:27:32 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Yeah I heard this referred to as a policy dispute.

This is kind of like how the Trumps are fine business men but the Biden’s are an immense criminal family.

Yes, a policy dispute would require the bipartisan policy to be finished and read. Announcing it "is dead upon arrival" before that is done means it has nothing to do with policy it offers.