A failed impeachment vote by the House of Representatives was the culmination of a months-long investigation into Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that Democrats have decried as a sham, reported the Washington Post. Mayorkas would have been just the second impeachment of a Cabinet secretary in U.S. history and the first in nearly 150 years if the vote been successful, The vote was 214-216, a defeat for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and House Republicans who have blamed the Biden administration for record migrant crossings and made border security a central campaign issue. The rol…
