The White House sent a new memo at noon on Monday to point out the hypocrisy of House Republicans impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas while they block the bipartisan border bill they demanded.
White House spokesman for oversight and investigations Ian Sams said in a memo sent to PoliticusUSA that this effort is a waste of time, deemed “unconstitutional” by constitutional and legal experts, and not a focus for Senate Republicans.
The memo continues, calling out extreme Republicans for prioritizing a silly, baseless stunt over an actual bipartisan border security bill that would address challenges at the border and provide resources to DHS.
The memo references multiple experts who say this impeachment is unconstitutional, from an open letter by 25 constitutional law experts to House Republicans’ own impeachment witness Jonathan Turley.
University of Missouri professor and constitutional law scholar Frank Bowman highlights the point that Republicans have impeached Mayorkas because they disagree with President Biden’s border policies.
“There’s no suggestion that I’m aware of that Secretary Mayorkas has committed either treason or bribery,” Bowman said. “In the words of the great impeachment scholar Charles Black, ‘Whatever may be the grounds of an impeachment and removal, dislike of a president’s policy is certainly not one of them.’ Impeachment of a cabinet secretary over policy disagreements is contrary to constitutional understanding and impractical.”
The issue for conservatives and Republicans is that The People elected President Joe Biden, and they are entitled to get the policies they voted for. Democrats gave Republicans approximately 80% of what they asked for in the border bill, so Republicans are hijacking the government with a minuscule majority in the House, while the Senate and the White House are under Democratic control.
HUMANITARIAN BORDER VERSUS DELIBERATE CRUELTY
Republicans refuse to pass the border bill that gave them 80% of what they asked for because Donald Trump wants the border to be in chaos so he can run against the chaos his party is making worse, and they object to the humanitarian aspect of President Biden’s border policies.
Biden aims to avoid shooting migrants who cross the border, unlike Governor Abbott. He also seeks to avoid deliberately separating families or inflicting other kinds of permanent trauma on people fleeing violence and political upset.
Republicans disagree with Biden’s humanitarian priorities regarding U.S. border policies and are actively trying to make the border worse for political gain, admitting they won’t work on addressing the border because it would help Biden politically.
This demonstrates their unconstitutional removal of Mayorkas more clearly because it reveals a selfish misuse of humanity for political reasons and a complete lack of respect for the desires of the people.
THE DESIRES OF THE PEOPLE
It’s honestly worrying how little respect Republicans have for the majority of Americans, who chose President Biden in the most secure modern election, and how the media portrays this as the right of Republicans.
Note that no one in mainstream media is seeking out Democrats in a diner in Detroit to inquire about their feelings regarding their president being undermined by a House with such a slim majority that they need Democrats to support them when it comes to carrying out their actual duties. These voters are not a focus of interest and their votes seem unimportant to many in the mainstream media.
Republicans impeached Mayorkas over the border after they declined to fund the border at necessary levels, despite more people attempting to cross the border, many seeking political asylum, and walked away from a bipartisan bill.
REPUBLICAN DEFENSE
The Republican justification for this undemocratic behavior is that Democrats did it to Trump.
So, yes, Democrats did impeach ex-president Donald Trump. They impeached him first for withholding Congressionally approved funds from Ukraine in an effort to pressure the country into creating negative information about Trump’s political opponent, Joe Biden.
Democrats impeached Trump a second time after he incited a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn the election he lost.
What do those two impeachments of Trump have to do with Republicans impeaching Mayorkas after wasting endless resources trying to find something over which to impeach Joe Biden? All three of these impeachments are the results of Republicans seizing power not given to them by the voters.
SERIOUS
Republicans are using the impeachment to appear serious about the border:
“Now, they want people to think they are serious on the border by pushing a baseless impeachment stunt that legal scholars say is unconstitutional,” Sams wrote. “Instead of more of these political stunts, congressional Republicans should work with President Biden to actually address this issue in a bipartisan manner. It’s time to stop the silly games.”
NO GENUINE JOBS
Of course, Republicans won’t stop their political maneuvering because it’s their only purpose. House Republicans have no genuine jobs anymore. They aren’t there to do the hard work of a budget or negotiate with anyone, especially people with different ideas than them.
House Republicans are being paid by U.S. taxpayers to put on political theater to help Donald Trump, including their seeming efforts to impeach Hunter Biden, who of course is not an elected official and over whom they do not actually have purview to the degree that they’ve taken it.
But it’s not silly at all. In fact, it’s an egregious affront to the voters, too many of whom overcame huge voter suppression efforts to cast their ballot. Voters go to all of this trouble to show up only to have Republicans spit on their choice over and over again, whether it’s trying to overthrow the most secure election in history or holding Impeachment Theater for purely political purposes.
Repeatedly, Republicans are refusing to cooperate with Democrats and instead undermining the authority given to them by voters, which seems to be an attempt to run a parallel presidency in many ways. appears more and more to be a shadow presidency effort in many regards.
QUIET TREASON?
The behavior of the MAGA caucus in the U.S. House is approaching a form of sneaky treason. Perhaps we could call it Quite Treason.
They are overthrowing the government like people quiet quit. They’re simply not allowing the full power the people gave to President Biden, because they don’t want to share power and they do not respect American voters.
