{"id":2225371,"date":"2024-04-19T15:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-just-blew-off-impeachment-of-alejandro-mayorkas-and-republicans-will-do-nothing-about-it\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:27:37","slug":"democrats-just-blew-off-impeachment-of-alejandro-mayorkas-and-republicans-will-do-nothing-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-just-blew-off-impeachment-of-alejandro-mayorkas-and-republicans-will-do-nothing-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats dismissed the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, with Republicans unlikely to take further action"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-just-blew-off-impeachment-of-alejandro-mayorkas-and-republicans-will-do-nothing-about-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2225371&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the Democrats&#8217; dismissal of impeachment\u2063 charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro \u200cMayorkas and the potential implications\u2064 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-democrats-criminalize-opposition-and-cripple-the-court-democracy-is-dead\/\" title=\"Democracy dies if Democrats criminalize opposition and weaken the court.\">future impeachment \u2063proceedings<\/a>. It also highlights \u200bthe political dynamics surrounding past impeachments \u2063and the reactions of Senate Republicans and Democrats\u2064 to these events. The article delves\u2063 into the Democrats&#8217; rejection of impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary\u200b Alejandro \u200cMayorkas, \u2062exploring \u2064how this decision \u200dcould\u200d impact\u2063 upcoming impeachment processes. Additionally, it\u200d sheds light on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-dangerous-new-democrat-bills-that-you-probably-havent-heard-of\/\" title=\"Four Dangerous New Democrat Bills That You Probably Haven\u2019t Heard Of\">political landscape<\/a> regarding previous\u2062 impeachments and how\u2062 Senate Republicans \u2063and Democrats have responded to such situations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>If there\u2019s a silver lining to Democrats\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mayorkas-senate-impeachment-trial-democrats-29aa775c0e866f4160f320583f261a72\">casual dismissal<\/a> of impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week, it would be that a future GOP-led Senate now has license to blow off all impeachments that will inevitably be sent their way. But there\u2019s no universe in which Republicans accept that gift.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the next time Democrats seize control of the House and contrive allegations of high crime and misdemeanor \u2014\u00a0far sooner than you think \u2014 enough Republicans, reliably compliant, will declare it\u2019s the Senate\u2019s absolute moral and constitutional duty to consider, deliberate and ultimately host a trial that remedies the fabricated concern.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-472914066\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-170cfa93568ec46350e7a465ef213e01 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-170cfa93568ec46350e7a465ef213e01\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s depressingly rare for Republicans to return fire when Democrats escalate their unyielding war on American democracy, institutions, and norms. Democrats impeached the last Republican president\u2014\u00a0twice! And one of those times, he wasn\u2019t even in office.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn\u2019t a sliver of merit to either. The first impeachment related to a phone call between Donald Trump and the head of Ukraine, during which a government worker listening in complained that credible allegations of wrongdoing by his former boss, Joe Biden, came up in conversation. The second was a pretense to ensure Trump could never get elected again.<\/p>\n<p>Yet several Senate Republicans, ever afraid that someone at The New York Times will yell at them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/senators-be-sworn-trump-impeachment-trial-where-they-will-be-n1255686\">voted with Democrats to legitimize<\/a> all of it with two full trials that, although it\u2019s of little consolation, ended in acquittals.<\/p>\n<p>The second Republicans took control of the House in 2023, the first order of business should have been to impeach Joe Biden. They didn\u2019t even have to bother with the \u201cinquiry\u201d in hopes of nailing down some actual crime. As America was assured <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/3f8dcd6feb9e540da4e80a218a87fb89\">by our helpful media<\/a> during attempted Trump removal 1.0, impeachment is a <em>political<\/em> process, not a criminal one. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6d70ffe0881b4b3a8bd4e92aeb10639e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6d70ffe0881b4b3a8bd4e92aeb10639e\"><\/div>\n<p>They could have called it the \u201cJust For Fun Impeachment of Joe Biden\u201d and it would have been every bit as real as the previous two levied against Trump. That\u2019s the cheapness that Democrats brought to the process.<\/p>\n<p>But, as we know, Biden hasn\u2019t been impeached by this GOP-\u201cled\u201d House. He most surely won\u2019t be. Voters who gave Republicans the keys to power did, however, get the bare minimum\u2014\u00a0the impeachment of a Biden administration official, Mayorkas, who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/14\/house-republicans-impeach-homeland-security-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas\/\">was charged<\/a> with willful refusal to enforce immigration law and lying about his professional conduct, a \u201cbreach of trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What should have followed is simple: a Senate trial of the accusations against Mayorkas, who would be entitled to a defense. That is a lost American tradition once known as \u201cdue process.\u201d He would have certainly been acquitted anyway. But instead, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said, <em>Screw you, Republicans!<\/em> before tossing their little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-are-better-than-that-gop-minority-leader-kevin-mccarthy-blames-trump-for-dc-rioting-earlier-in-week-then-calls-rep-marjorie-greene-to-disagree-with-h\/\" title=\"\u201cRepublicans Are Better than That\u201d \u2013 GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Blames Trump for DC Rioting Earlier in Week \u2014 Then Calls Rep. Marjorie Greene to Disagree with Her on Biden Impeachment\">impeachment articles<\/a> in the trash, right along with the smiley face doodles he keeps receiving from John Fetterman.<\/p>\n<p>After every Senate Democrat voted to discard the impeachment articles, Schumer showed just how big his balls are. \u201cIf we start cheapening impeachment,\u201d he said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/18\/us\/politics\/mayorkas-impeachment-precedent.html\">an interview<\/a> with The New York Times, \u201cwhich is what they\u2019ve done by letting a policy issue become impeachment, there will be impeachment all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f7dfedb9ac4d58cdab84b246ea7a6d2f fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f7dfedb9ac4d58cdab84b246ea7a6d2f\"><\/div>\n<p>No Senate Republican has it in him to flex like that. The complicity and stupidity of Republicans in the House are just as bad, or worse.<\/p>\n<p>Before the impeachment articles finally passed, Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado voted against them because, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/congress-blog\/4448278-principles-matter-republicans-should-follow-the-constitution-and-not-impeach-mayorkas\/\">he said<\/a>, \u201cPartisan impeachments that do not meet the constitutional standard will boomerang back and hurt Republicans in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buck apparently woke up in the middle of 2021 after a four-year slumber. It\u2019s <em>Democrats<\/em> who started \u201cpartisan impeachments.\u201d Shouldn\u2019t that \u201cboomerang back\u201d on<em> them<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>GOP California Rep. Tom McClintock likewise <a href=\"https:\/\/mcclintock.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/mcclintock.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/the-case-against-the-impeachment-of-mayorkas.pdf\">urged<\/a> Republicans against impeaching Mayoraks because \u201cWe must never allow the left to become our teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Average Republican officeholder: <em>If we do it to them, they\u2019ll do it to us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They already did it to us.<\/p>\n<p>Average Republican officeholder: <em>Yeah, but we\u2019re better than that<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the winsome mentality of the elected Republican in Congress\u2014 losing with dignity is actually winning!<\/p>\n<p>No, dummy. Winning is winning. And winning isn\u2019t for the sake of itself. It\u2019s for the purpose of wielding power. If Republicans can\u2019t do that on a simple task like impeaching a derelict cabinet official, they\u2019re about as useful as a set of \u201cHis and Hers\u201d towels for Lindsey Graham.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern is old and clear: Democrats escalate tensions, and when Republicans get their turn, they hide. This time is no different, and next time will be the same.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-89a437c33ffac9d8dc6cdf9cac1d00c8 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-89a437c33ffac9d8dc6cdf9cac1d00c8\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Democrats&#8217; dismissal of impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, this could set a precedent for future GOP-led Senates to disregard impeachments. However, it is unlikely that Republicans will embrace this opportunity, given the current political reality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2225372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Charles-Schumer.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Charles-Schumer.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}