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Exclusive — ‘Completely Unconstitutional’: Rep. Tom McClintock Defends His Opposition to Mayorkas Impeachment
Breitbart ^ | 11/15/2023 | BRADLEY JAYE

Posted on 11/15/2023 1:04:26 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) joined Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM Wednesday to defend his opposition to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) resolution to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

McClintock and seven other Republicans voted with Democrats Monday night to send Greene’s privileged resolution to the House Committee on Homeland Security, a procedural move that essentially killed the proposal.

“It’s completely unconstitutional,” McClintock told host Mike Slater of Greene’s effort. “Impeachment is a very limited power to remove officials for, quote, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors…”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: alejandromayorkas; dhs; donatefreerepublic; impeach; impeachment; jimknowsdonors; mayorkas; mcclintock; primarymcclintock; rinosaretraitors; treason; unconstitutional
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“high crimes or misdemeanors” is equivalent to “natural born”

i.e. it’s whatever congress says it is.


21 posted on 11/15/2023 1:46:48 PM PST by glorgau
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wasn’t Tom McClintock considered a strong conservative say ten years ago? Wha’ happened?


22 posted on 11/15/2023 1:47:49 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

He was always an egotistical gadfly.


23 posted on 11/15/2023 1:50:13 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Wasn’t Tom McClintock considered a strong conservative say ten years ago? Wha’ happened?

Ryan and McCarthy got to him?

24 posted on 11/15/2023 1:50:43 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s not wrong, and I challenge you to come up with a plausible counter argument.


25 posted on 11/15/2023 1:51:06 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At some point the American Members of Congress need to start caucusing together...


26 posted on 11/15/2023 1:52:52 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The government is supposed to protect our borders, but it is not. If Texas tries to protect their border, Mayorkas just has the Border Patrol cut the wire fence. The deluge of illegals is sinking cities. How can this not be criminal?


27 posted on 11/15/2023 2:00:05 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: jeffersondem
Elections are FAKE. They are all INSTALLED and it's been that way for a LONG time.

Biden will WIN in 2024 and people STILL won't wake up to this fact, ALTHOUGH BRAZILIANS DID.

28 posted on 11/15/2023 2:00:15 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Mariner

Well the two of you agree, but when did McClintock become the final arbiter of the constitution? The constitution is challenged every single day in courts around this country. Maybe they can make the case, but maybe the Supreme Court would agree with you. But at the core, that’s the real problem, our side says we can’t, and the Democrats say let’s see if they’ll stop us. Which Republicans are usually too weak to challenge them anyway.


29 posted on 11/15/2023 2:01:21 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tom is no scum bag. He’s maintained a lifetime CPAC rating of 98%, and most years it’s closer to 100%, but there are times, like this, where he thinks too hard and trips over his feet.

This year, he’s been caught up in normalcy bias, thinking that the battle is still between conservatives (which Tom without a doubt is), and Liberals, not understanding that the terms have changed. The Conservatives lost. Now the populist right is in what may be the last fight for this nation, opposing the totalitarian, radical left.

In this case, Tom’s using the old, conservative logic of looking at the Constitution, reading it, and applying it dispassionately. And he’s correct: this is a political disagreement, and any “high crime or misdemeanor” in the traditional sense.

What Tom’s not taking into account, IMHO, is that the Democrat opposition burned those old rules to the ground with their two fake, sham, unconstitutional impeachments of Trump, followed up with four sham, unconstitutional and unprecedented weaponized indictments. He’s playing by the old rules, which is frustrating, but he’s been solid on a range of issues for a long time, and is going to be needed in congress during Trump’s second term.


30 posted on 11/15/2023 2:07:35 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: LibertyWoman

Nothing happened.

You were fooled by his speeches, and ignored who his donors were.


31 posted on 11/15/2023 2:09:41 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

umm No, I was not ‘fooled’. Not to get too defensive here but I’m in Missouri. I only went by what was put out there in the public airways. Had I lived in CA, I would have ‘researched’ the guy thoroughly and would have discovered the truth about him.


32 posted on 11/15/2023 2:12:52 PM PST by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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To: absalom01

“And he’s correct: this is a political disagreement, and any “high crime or misdemeanor” in the traditional sense.”


How is deliberately enabling a foreign invasion of ten million just a “political disagreement” ?


33 posted on 11/15/2023 2:12:52 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Allowing our border to be invaded isn’t treason? I notice he’s saying voting against Biden is the only recourse. Shame on him. Neglecting his duty for votes.


34 posted on 11/15/2023 2:13:38 PM PST by liberalh8ter ( Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s just doing Biden’s bidding. Biden isn’t going to appoint anyone who is going to genuinely secure the border.


35 posted on 11/15/2023 2:17:19 PM PST by gloryblaze
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To: absalom01

“lifetime CPAC rating of 98%”

That’s for over 15 years.

You can count on one hand his peers.


36 posted on 11/15/2023 2:18:03 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A very strong case can be made that treason is afoot.


37 posted on 11/15/2023 2:18:14 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Mariner

Yup.


38 posted on 11/15/2023 2:19:25 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Still butt hurting from losing his master, McCarthy, just like Mike Turner.

Very surprised about Issa.

McClintock is just plain senile, time to primary him.

Ken Buck, I do hope the door hits him in his brains on his way out of Congress.


39 posted on 11/15/2023 2:19:48 PM PST by Colo9250 (Free speech is not free when it denies others of their civil rights.)
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To: Reverend Wright

I did my best to explain that in my original post.


40 posted on 11/15/2023 2:21:51 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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