House Republicans are moving to impeachment Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and CNN’s Laura Coates is not happy about it. On her Monday show, Coates feigned confusion as she echoed Democratic and DHS sentiments that the whole thing is a “farce” and "you won't find" any justification for it.
Coates led off the show by setting the scene, “All right, you’ve heard this before, members of the House are set to mark up two new articles of impeachment tomorrow, but this time it’s not for Donald Trump, it’s also not for Joe Biden. Instead they are targeting President Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary, the man you see right there, Alejandro Mayorkas.”
Safe to say, Coates is not a fan, “And the House Republicans that are accusing him, it's because he's not enforcing, they say, the border laws and he's losing the trust of the American people. You're probably wondering which is the high crime or misdemeanor and like a Law & Order episode. You probably won't find it tonight. The misdemeanor, the high crime, and you're not odd for asking the question because, of course, those are the actual Constitutional standards for impeachment, frankly, it has been more nebulous over the years.”
The consequences of the fact that Democrats cheapened impeachment to satisfy their base in 2019 would make for an interesting discussion, but no such segment was forthcoming. Still, Coates continued “But I wonder if you feel that would meet the criteria. Well, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee says the articles don't include a shred of evidence. The DHS says it's a farce, and legal experts say that this really just boils down to not a legal dispute, but a policy dispute.”
The evidence is the real-world situation currently occurring at the border.
Here is a transcript for the January 28 show:
CNN Laura Coates Live
1/28/2024
11:00 PM
LAURA COATES: All right, you’ve heard this before, members of the House are set to mark up two new articles of impeachment tomorrow, but this time it’s not for Donald Trump, it’s also not for Joe Biden. Instead they are targeting President Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary, the man you see right there, Alejandro Mayorkas.
And the House Republicans that are accusing him, it's because he's not enforcing, they say, the border laws and he's losing the trust of the American people. You're probably wondering which is the high crime or misdemeanor and like a Law & Order episode. You probably won't find it tonight. The misdemeanor, the high crime, and you're not odd for asking the question because, of course, those are the actual Constitutional standards for impeachment, frankly, it has been more nebulous over the years.
But I wonder if you feel that would meet the criteria. Well, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee says the articles don't include a shred of evidence. The DHS says it's a farce, and legal experts say that this really just boils down to not a legal dispute, but a policy dispute.
