On Thursday, far proper Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) introduced that she would quickly be submitting articles of impeachment in opposition to President Joe Biden.
Greene, a loyalist to former President Donald Trump who voted against his impeachment in early 2021, claimed in her announcement that Biden has refused to implement the U.S.’s immigration legal guidelines — although Biden has not solely continued a lot of Trump’s merciless anti-immigration insurance policies, however expanded upon them.
“It’s with the best quantity of solemnity that I announce my intention to introduce articles of impeachment right now on the pinnacle of this America-last govt department, that has been working since Jan. 20, 2021, to systematically destroy this nation, the president of the USA, Joseph Robinette Biden,” Greene said in a statement.
Greene’s assertion didn’t specify how Biden violated his oath of workplace. That oath, which every chief govt of the USA is constitutionally required to recite, reads as follows:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I’ll faithfully execute the workplace of President of the USA, and can to the perfect of my skill, protect, shield and defend the Structure of the USA.
Guidelines on impeaching a president are considerably broad. Congress might vote to question the pinnacle of the manager department and/or their officers if they’ve dedicated acts of “treason, bribery, or different excessive crimes and misdemeanors,” in keeping with Article II of the U.S. Structure.
The latter a part of that clause — “excessive crimes and misdemeanors” — was outlined on the time it was adopted as a basic abuse of energy whereas in workplace. However in defending in opposition to Trump’s two impeachments, Republican-aligned authorized students wrongly claimed that the phrases needs to be interpreted actually.
Since Biden has taken workplace, nonetheless, far proper figures like Greene seem to approve of adopting the unique normal.
Authorized consultants have stated that Greene’s makes an attempt to question Biden are unwarranted and primarily based on false claims.
Regardless of Greene’s claims that Biden has refused to implement U.S. immigration legislation, Biden has largely continued Trump’s inhumane anti-immigration insurance policies — and in lots of circumstances, gone even further, implementing new restrictions on asylum seekers that human rights advocates have condemned as a merciless violation of worldwide legislation.
“The Biden administration has swiftly changed the illegal and restrictive [Trump-era Title 42] immigration coverage with a near-total asylum ban that may turbocharge the deportation of migrants who cross the border from Mexico into the U.S.,” stated Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, govt director of the San Francisco Bay Space chapter of the Nationwide Legal professionals Guild and a member of the management group at Witness on the Border, in an op-ed for Truthout earlier this month. “That is mixed with intensified militarization of the border and unprecedented steps to increase enforcement and deterrence measures all through Latin America, from Guatemala to Colombia.”
Tellingly, Greene has additionally filed articles of impeachment in opposition to different Biden administration officers — 4 within the final week alone, not counting the one she plans for the president. These filings embody impeachment articles in opposition to Matthew Graves, the U.S. Lawyer for Washington, D.C.; Christopher Wray, the present director of the FBI; Attorney General Merrick Garland; and Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Division of Homeland Safety.
This isn’t even the primary time Greene has filed articles of impeachment in opposition to Biden. In her first motion ever as a member of Congress, Greene filed an impeachment resolution against Biden — on January 21, 2021, his second day within the White Home.
Inside that decision, Greene made baseless claims that Biden “interfered with the peaceable transition of energy” and “threatened the integrity of the democratic system” of the USA.
With such a slender Republican majority within the U.S. Home of Representatives, it’s unlikely that Greene’s resolutions — in opposition to Biden or some other govt department official — will go anyplace. Even when she does someway achieve convincing sufficient GOP lawmakers to associate with her impeachments, they may doubtless be blocked within the U.S. Senate, the place two-thirds of the legislative physique is required to take away Biden from workplace. At the moment, Democrats and their impartial allies have a 51-49 seat management over that chamber.
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