Troubling precedent or business of the majority?
The Senate voted to dismiss the impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas for his handling of the border crisis late April 17 without hearing any of the evidence. In what may turn out to be a dangerous precedent, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) held a string of votes to entirely dismiss the two articles of impeachment before the merits of the case could be presented. The question must now be asked whether the majority – of either party – could simply play politics with the nation’s most important decisions.
Mayorkas Survives – But What Did It Cost?
For the first time in almost 150 years – and only for the second time in the nation’s history – a cabinet secretary has been impeached. The first, Secretary of War William…
