Hapless House Republicans weaponized impeachment. It backfired

By Jackie Calmes

Maybe I’m going out on a limb here, but the hapless House Republicans have finally achieved something big: an end to tit-for-tat impeachments.

Of course, that’s the opposite of the achievement they promised two years ago, ahead of the midterm elections that gave them control of the House. Back then, some chest-beaters were vowing to impeach President Biden as well as members of his Cabinet, starting with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the administration’s border security czar, and sweeping up Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray (a Donald Trump holdover, by the way), Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Lord knows who else.

They managed, just, to impeach Mayorkas on their second attempt — more on that later. But all in all, they’ve failed spectacularly. Fortunately.

And though Republicans won’t say so, their humiliation has all but exorcised the zeal to abuse one of the House’s most solemn powers under the Constitution: its ability to charge executive or judicial branch officials with “high Crimes and Misdemeanors,” intending for the Senate to try the alleged offender and boot them from office.

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