Mayorkas impeachment goes down in flames while Mike Johnson’s Ukrainian headache persists
Congress had a whirlwind day on Wednesday. The Senate began and terminated the trial of Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden’s director of Homeland Security, over the course of about four hours. Democrats, with their 51-vote majority in the upper chamber, voted to kill both of House Republicans’ long-awaited articles of impeachment, arguing in both cases that their rivals had failed to meet the standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors” set by the US Constitution.
