House Homeland Security Committee Prepares for Mayorkas Impeachment Hearing
Critics argue the impeachment effort over policy differences does not meet constitutional standards.
- House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-N.C., announced that his committee would hold a hearing next week to mark up articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
- Republicans' primary charge against Mayorkas is that he's selectively applying the nation's immigration laws.
- The GOP-led House Homeland Security Committee has conducted two closed-door interviews with two former Trump Homeland Security officials, Mark Morgan and Rodney Scott, as the committee prepares to move forward with articles of impeachment against Secretary Mayorkas.
- Democrats and some Republicans have criticized the impeachment inquiry process, saying the effort to remove Mayorkas involves a difference over policy and doesn't meet the constitutional standard for impeachment.
- Mayorkas has been willing to testify before the committee, but not on the date Republicans offered because he was getting ready to host Mexican officials.