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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas survived a House Republican effort to impeach him Tuesday.

A motion to impeach Mayorkas, something long sought by GOPers, failed 214-216, with four Republicans joining all Democrats against the motion.

Republicans leaders had sought to impeach Mayorkas over the crisis at the southern U.S. border. But Republicans including Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wi), Rep. Tom McClintock (R-ca) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-co) opposed the measure, arguing it would set a precedent for Democrats to try to remove Cabinet members in a Republican administration.

Mayorkas would have been the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached. In 1876, William Belknap, the Secretary of War, resigned before a House vote.

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Even before Republicans took control of the House, Mayorkas was a target of GOP ire, as he was blamed for the increase in border crossings.

The vote took place just hours after Senate Republican leadership...

Here we go again! After having two presidential impeachment trials in the United States’ first 231 years, the Senate is now about to start its second trial of Donald Trump in just over 12 months.

While we all developed great expertise from taking the 2020 class Trump Impeachment 101, there are all sorts of new issues for the 2021 version of the course. So let’s do a lightning round of the major constitutional issues that you need to know to be an expert and impress your friends at your next Zoom happy hour.

Donald Trump is no longer President.

We’ve gone for just over two weeks now without hearing much of anything from Donald Trump: Banned from Twitter, absent from Fox & Friends call ins, the former president has been unusually low key at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

That will change on Tuesday, when he will once again be at the center of the media spotlight, even if he’s not a presence live and in person.

For only the fourth time in American history, the Senate will start an impeachment trial of a president — and it will be a first for a former commander in chief.

Broadcast networks are planning special reports, while cable and streaming services networks will provide complete feeds of the proceedings.

It was just over a year ago that Trump was acquitted in the Senate for his first impeachment, and there is every expectation that will be the same verdict again.

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