Jennifer Bendery is a senior politics reporter for HuffPost. She has covered Congress and the White House for HuffPost since April 2011. She previously reported on Congress for four years for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, and spent four years covering the Texas Legislature for GalleryWatch in Austin, TX.
In a stunning blow to Republican leaders, the House rejected an effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday after a number of Republicans joined Democrats in opposing it.The vote was incredibly dramatic. It was tied 215 to 215 for several minutes, with every Democrat voting no along with three: Reps. Ken Buck , Tom McClintock and Mike Gallagher .
Surprise! Rep. Al Green caught GOP leaders off guard by showing up to vote against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. He provided Democrats with the extra vote they needed to tank the effort.Johnson is already signaling he’ll try again when he’s certain he has the votes. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise missed the vote for medical reasons, so he could give the GOP that one extra vote it needs when he returns.
In the lead-up to the vote, Johnson, who is a constitutional lawyer, touted his legal credentials and said he had no choice but to impeach. “The problem is that they fail to identify an impeachable crime that Mayorkas has committed,” McClintock said early Tuesday in“In effect, they stretch and distort the Constitution in order to hold the administration accountable for stretching and distorting the law,” he said.
Even if they had been successful in impeaching Mayorkas, the impeachment articles would have gone nowhere in the Senate.
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