{"id":172712,"date":"2024-02-06T16:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T00:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=172712"},"modified":"2024-02-06T16:08:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T00:08:05","slug":"the-case-against-the-impeachment-of-mayorkas-tom-mcclintock-votes-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=172712","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against the Impeachment of Mayorkas &#038; Tom McClintock Votes Against"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-05) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor.\u00a0 The Congressman also released the attached\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mcclintock.house.gov\/The-Case-Against-the-Impeachment-of-Mayorkas-Memo\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mcclintock.house.gov\/The-Case-Against-the-Impeachment-of-Mayorkas-Memo&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1707350306480000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2XVmyeJBlijRB6ZREMc1Gu\">memo<\/a> discussing impeachment.\u00a0 Rep. McClintock House floor remarks (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HjwCgb60mYM\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3DHjwCgb60mYM&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1707350306480000&amp;usg=AOvVaw38c2XnIEfKoI_KdbNZ5DfK\">video link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HjwCgb60mYM\" title=\"The Case Against the Impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Speaker:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Mayorkas is guilty of maladministration of our immigration laws on a cosmic scale.\u00a0 But we KNOW that\u2019s not grounds for impeachment, because the American Founders specifically rejected it.<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t want political disputes to become impeachments, because that would shatter the separation of powers that vests the enforcement of the laws with the President \u2013 no matter how bad a job he does.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet secretaries can\u2019t serve two masters.\u00a0 They can be impeached for committing a crime relating to their office, but not for carrying out presidential policy.<\/p>\n<p>The border crisis can\u2019t be fixed by replacing one left-wing official with another.\u00a0 It can only be fixed by the American people at the ballot box by replacing this administration with one committed to securing our borders, defending our country, and upholding the rule of law.\u00a0 Americans are already coming to that conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m afraid that stunts like this don\u2019t help.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-05) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor.\u00a0 The Congressman also released the attached\u00a0memo discussing impeachment.\u00a0 Rep. McClintock House floor remarks (video link): Mr. Speaker: Secretary Mayorkas is guilty of maladministration of our immigration laws on a cosmic scale.\u00a0 But we KNOW that\u2019s not grounds for impeachment, because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Fullscreen-capture-262024-40709-PM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172714,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172712\/revisions\/172714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}