House Republicans on Wednesday opened a series of hearings dedicated to impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — embarking down the road of removing a Cabinet secretary for the second time in history.
In many ways the hearing was like any other the House Homeland Security Committee has held over the past year — focusing on the “havoc” immigration has created in the heartland, a nod to a popular Republican refrain that every state is now a border state.
But in a shift, the witnesses — three state attorneys general and a law professor — were asked to be experts on impeachment, with members squaring off over whether Republicans had found any evidence to back the constitutional standard of removal from office for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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