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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas narrowly avoided impeachment Tuesday, as the vote to oust him failed by a vote of 216-214. It had been 215-215, but a Utah congressman switched his vote from “yes” to “no” in the last moments before voting closed. Rep. Blake Moore, who was recently elected as vice chair of the House Republican Conference, switched his vote to join three other Republicans who voted no on the impeachment articles — Reps. Mike Gallagher,… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]MTG explodes at Lindsey Graham for admitting there’s no “smoking gun” in Biden impeachment stunt  Yahoo! Voices Source link

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Sen. Richard Burr stood and said “guilty” there were hushed gasps in the Senate chamber. But the North Carolina Republican’s vote to convict former President Donald Trump should not have come as a shock. In a way, he had been telegraphing his willingness to hold Trump accountable for several years. Months before Trump would begin falsely claiming that the November election had been stolen from him, the Senate Intelligence Committee led by Burr warned that sitting… Source link

President Trump made history on Wednesday by becoming the first U.S. president to be impeached twice. However, this time around, the Senate trial could look drastically different, with some arguing it might not happen at all. That’s because, while presidential impeachments are already incredibly rare, the certainty that a Senate trial will not start until after Trump’s term ends on Jan. 20 means we are in uncharted legal territory. Yahoo News explains what we know — and what we don’t… Source link