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On their second attempt, Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas Tuesday night by a vote of 214-213. This is the first time since 1876 ...
In any case, Republicans would not be able to win the support of the two-thirds of the Senate that is needed to convict and remove Mayorkas from office — Democrats control the Senate, 51-49, and ...
[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.
Numerous federal officials in the United States have been threatened with impeachment and removal from office. [1] Despite numerous impeachment investigations and votes to impeach a number of presidents by the House of Representatives, only three presidents in U.S. history have had articles of impeachment approved: Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump (twice), all of which were ...
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas [18] was born in Havana, Cuba, on November 24, 1959. [4] When he was one year old, his parents fled with him and his sister to the United States in 1960 as refugees, following the Cuban Revolution.
The Republican-controlled House impeached Mayorkas by a single vote margin on Feb. 13, recommending that Mayorkas be removed from office over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. With two ...
Citing the New York Times ... Hawley pointed to the increase of child trafficking as well as child abuse among migrants since Mayorkas took office. The senator attributed the rise to the secretary ...
Frank Buchanan of Illinois demanded the impeachment of H. Snowden Marshall, United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, for alleged neglect of duty and subservience to "the great criminal trusts," [48] The Chicago Tribune claimed it had been In an effort to stop the grand jury investigation into the activities of ...