And they wonder why they can’t win elections even when you have a “Red wave” potential election.
What the hell happened to Tom McClintock? He better have a great, unexpected, insightful reason why he isn't voting to impeach!
OK, I went to his Twitter page - here is McClintock's statement:
November 13, 2023 Vote Notes on Legislation
Yes: Motion to Refer H. Res. 863 to the Homeland Security Committee – Impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas. Alejandro Mayorkas is the worst cabinet secretary in American history, guilty of malfeasance, neglect of duty and maladministration. He has implemented Biden’s open border policy that has produced the worst mass illegal migration ever recorded. Elections have consequences, and this is one of them.
The grounds for impeachment are explicitly laid out in the Constitution: “Treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Treason and bribery are well defined. But from the beginning, politicians have tried to stretch the meaning of “high crimes and misdemeanors” to apply to political disagreements, and that is antithetical to the fundamental architecture of the Constitution.
The founders specifically rejected terms like malfeasance, neglect of duty and maladministration as grounds for impeachment, because they feared such vague terms would be twisted for political ends and render the executive subordinate to the legislative branch.
Ultimately, they settled on “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Obviously, they would not have substituted one vague term for another. Thus, we are left with the plain and explicit meaning of the phrase. To remove an official by impeachment, it must be for a clearly defined crime and it must be a “high” crime, meaning one related to the official’s duties.
The House made a mockery of impeachment twice during the last session of Congress. We must not allow the left to become our teachers. If these clear constitutional principles are not restored, now, that power will be just one election from being turned against the constitutionalists on the Supreme Court, or upon any future Republican administration.
This is still B.S.