Rep. Lauren Boebert recently introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden recently, and the GOP-led House voted on this Thursday, June 22, to send the article of impeachment to the House Homeland Security and House Judiciary Committees. The vote to do so was passed 219-208 on party lines.
Watch Boebert introduce the articles of impeachment here:
Rep. Boebert’s articles of impeachment accuse President Biden of “high crimes and misdemeanors” related to his handling of the crisis at the southern border. She brought the articles in a special resolution that would have let it move to a vote without committee involvement but reached an agreement with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy that let them move first into a committee despite that.
Posting on Twitter at the time she introduced the articles, Rep. Boebert said, “Today, I initiated historic impeachment proceedings against Joe Biden for his unconstitutional dereliction of duty at the southern border. For the first time in 24 years, House Republicans united to protect the separation of powers and start a formal impeachment inquiry.”
In another tweet, she said, “As a result of POTUS’ dereliction of one of his most basic duties to defend the homeland, we’ve had more than 5.3 MILLION illegal aliens invade our southern border. That’s why I’ve introduced Articles of Impeachment for Traitor Joe!”
Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TX) said that his committee would handle the matter by expanding the scope of its investigation into Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas to include President Joe Biden’s handling of the matter. Speaking on the matter to Axios, Rep. Green said, “The House, it looks like, is going to ask us to take a look at Mr. Biden’s actions. We will do so. We will dig deeply into it.”
Rep. Green added, CNN reports, “There’s not going to be that much of a change other than we’ll dig into the actual actions of the president in conjunction with what’s happened.”
Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), took a different approach. He said that he will wait for the House Oversight Committee to complete an investigation before moving forward, telling Axios, “I assume at some point there will be a report … and we’ll move accordingly.” Rep. Jordan also told Axios that the House Homeland Security Committee has “primary jurisdiction for this resolution,” so he will let it take the lead on the matter.
Democrats, for their part, took the allegations and process less seriously. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), speaking on the matter on the House floor, said, “Nothing about this is serious — not the process, not the intentions of the resolution sponsor, not the impeachment case, not a single damn thing.”
“Nothing about this is serious — not the process, not the intentions of the resolution sponsor, not the impeachment case, not a single damn thing.”
— Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) slams some Republicans pushing for articles of impeachment against Biden over his handling of the border pic.twitter.com/kWjVyHZl5V
— The Recount (@therecount) June 22, 2023
Speaker McCarthy, for his part, said that he was against moving forward with an impeachment effort and vote until the committees have completed their investigations into the matter, telling CNN, “I think to prematurely bring something up like that, to have no background in it, it undercuts what we’re doing.”
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