If at first you do not succeed: On their second try, Home Republicans have efficiently impeached Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland safety secretary, in a 214 to 213 vote.
Mayorkas has made historical past as the primary sitting cupboard member to be impeached since 1876. It is unlikely this can progress within the Senate, as members are more likely to dismiss the fees.
“Since this Secretary refuses to do the job that the Senate confirmed him to do, the House must act,” stated Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.). Republicans have charged Mayorkas with “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” as he offers with the inflow of migrants on the southern border.
“History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games,” stated President Joe Biden in a press release final evening, calling the impeachment a “political stunt.”
“House Republicans will be remembered by history for trampling on the Constitution for political gain rather than working to solve the serious challenges at our border,” stated a Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson.
Many constitutional legislation consultants have claimed that Home Republicans “presented no evidence that Mr. Mayorkas’s conduct rose to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors,” which stays the “standard for impeachment laid out in the Constitution,” per The New York Instances. The three Republicans who broke with their social gathering and refused to vote in favor of impeachment—Colorado’s Ken Buck, Wisconsin’s Mike Gallagher, and California’s Tom McClintock—expressed issues alongside these strains.
Santos out, Suozzi in: Although I usually attempt to ignore Lengthy Island as a lot as humanly attainable, it does appear {that a} congressional district was flipped there final evening. Democrat Tom Suozzi received within the particular election that was held after Republican drag queen and former Rep. George Santos’ seat was vacated following a fraud scandal.
New York Democrats underperformed within the 2022 midterms, so this win is definitely of some significance. Suozzi’s opponent, Mazi Pilip, tried to make New York Metropolis’s migrant inflow the headline difficulty of the race, however it did not work: the Democrat was perceived as pretty average by voters, not a radical or somebody who bears any duty for New York Metropolis governance.
Scenes from New York: The oldest gunmaker in America, Remington, is closing its upstate New York manufacturing facility and shifting operations to Georgia, which the corporate says is friendlier to gun rights. “When Remington leaves, it’s not going to be like a facility leaving, it’s going to be like part of your family has moved off,” Ilion resident Jim Conover, who began at Remington in 1964, advised the Related Press.
QUICK HITS
- “I daresay that Carlson did, indeed, have a nice time when he visited Moscow,” writes Nationwide Overview‘s Charles C.W. Cooke in a searing takedown of Tucker Carlson’s Moscow fawning. “As a rich foreign tourist who was being carefully minded by the Russian government, he was undoubtedly exposed to the Moscow that its champions wanted him to see. And that city, I’ll wager, is pretty swell.”
- “C.D.C. Considers Ending 5-Day Isolation Period for Covid,” reads a New York Instances headline from immediately, as if anybody was nonetheless doing a five-day isolation interval.
- Actually:
A factor that’s evenly hilarious is bizarre redpill/trads inventing statistics after which working round yelling in regards to the statistics they invented. The typical American lady has had 4 sexual companions. The overwhelming majority of ladies don’t … do any of this. Go exterior. pic.twitter.com/znTUMbYqcA
— Jane Coaston (@janecoaston) February 13, 2024
- I all the time admire every time Paul Ehrlich circulates on Twitter, principally as a result of it supplies a chance to speak about how unsuitable his predictions have been:
Notice that Paul Ehrlich did not present regret for what he unfold. “My language would be even more apocalyptic” if he have been writing immediately, he stated in 2015. In any case, letting households have as many kids as they need is like letting them “throw as much of their garbage into their… pic.twitter.com/XETvXd2LbL
— Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) February 14, 2024
- A Georgia judge will decide whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be taken off her Donald Trump election interference case, given the revelation that Willis had a romantic relationship with the special prosecutor on the case.
- Good thread:
When some people look back fondly on the “Chilly Struggle Consensus,” what they miss is that said “consensus” is a fairly brief artifact of its time, one shaped by a narrow media and ideological environment that was aggressively policed.https://t.co/QQwNGPvM8R
— Brandan P. Buck (@brandan_buck) February 13, 2024