GOP Rep. Suggests Impeaching DHS Secretary Because Slavery Exists, Drugs Kill People
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“Is there any evidence that Secretary Mayorkas has enslaved anyone?” law professor Frank Bowman flatly said in response to Rep. Morgan Luttrell's claims.
WASHINGTON ― Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R-Texas) suggested Wednesday that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas should be impeached because slavery exists in the world and fentanyl is killing people ― a claim that law professor Frank Bowman, a witness in this House hearing, had to keep informing the congressman made no sense.
Both were participants in a House Homeland Security Committee hearing focused on impeaching Mayorkas. The hearing, which went on for nearly five hours, was a political stunt: Republicans are eager to make the migration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border a major liability for President Joe Biden in the 2024 elections. Mayorkas is their latest target.
The problem with the GOP’s impeachment effort is that Mayorkas, a cabinet secretary charged with carrying out immigration laws, as broken as they may be, has not been accused of any crimes. Never mind the kinds of serious “high crimes and misdemeanors” that meet the constitutional threshold for impeachment, like treason or bribery.
Nonetheless, the GOP’s rationale is that because Mayorkas is overseeing Biden’s border policies, he is responsible for the egregious crimes that people commit at the border and elsewhere, so he should be impeached.
Luttrell leaned hard into that rationale on Wednesday, trying to pin blame on the homeland security secretary for crimes carried out by others.
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