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Alejandro Nicolas Mayorkas (born November 24, 1959) ... Mayorkas is the first cabinet member to be impeached since William Belknap in 1876. [16]
On November 13, 2023, a motion to impeach Mayorkas was sent to the Homeland Security Committee by Congress. Three months later, the Committee voted to advance the motion to the floor. [ 37 ] On February 6, 2024, the impeachment failed to pass in the House by a margin of 214-216, with four Republican votes against. [ 38 ]
The House of Representatives, by an extremely narrow margin, voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in almost 150 years.
[2] [3] Mayorkas is the second Cabinet member in history, and first since Secretary of War William W. Belknap in 1876, to be impeached. [ 4 ] A full House vote on February 6 to impeach failed to pass in a 214–216 vote, with four House Republicans joining the minority Democratic Party in voting against the impeachment resolution.
If the Homeland Security secretary is impeached, it would be an exceedingly rare event. Only one Cabinet official has ever been impeached in American history: Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives committee next week will advance an effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over allegations he has ...
Atkins v. U.S. [238] was an unsuccessful attempt to force the Government to address the destructive effect of inflation on the judiciary during the period 1969–1975, when the value of the dollar, measured by the Consumer Price Index, decreased by 34%, and Congress failed to provide increases to protect judges' purchasing power.
“I can envision a future Republican administration where a Democrat-led House uses this precedent to act against a Republican Cabinet member who isn’t discharging their duties in a way that ...