So Much for That Big Homeland Security Impeachment

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So Much for That Big Homeland Security Impeachment
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House Republicans wanted fireworks. Instead, their efforts fizzled.

The trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was anything but. It wasn’t just that it was perhaps the fifth biggest news story in American politics this week . There was somehow no sense of history or gravitas for what was notionally a momentous occasion—the first impeachment trial of a sitting Cabinet member in American history. Instead, it played out like something else entirely.

But then House Republicans delayed in sending the impeachment articles to the Senate for nearly two months. And clearly, some of the air was let out of the tires. In that time, their slender majority shrank even further due to resignations, and Johnson became preoccupied with the threat of ouster from Marjorie Taylor Greene and began struggling to balance his gavel against the urgent need to send aid to Israel and Ukraine.

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