The articles of impeachment against Joe Biden introduced by Rep. Lauren Boebert yesterday are finding support among other Republican populists, namely Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is urging House Republicans against the impeachment vote.
Yesterday Boebert introduced a privileged motion to force an impeachment vote in the House, an act that signals open defiance against McCarthy and traditional lawmaking in Congress. While Greene had previously introduced articles of impeachment against Joe Biden, this will mark the first time the House is forced to a vote.
Political consultant Joey Mannarino explained, “These articles are crafted in a special way through the Parliamentarian that FORCES a vote of each member on the record.”
“This isn’t just noise,” Mannarino wrote on Twitter. “This is the first real chance at impeaching Biden.”
Forcing the vote on Tuesday, Boebert charged that the Biden White House has “continuously, overtly, and consistently violated federal immigration law by pursuing an aggressive open borders agenda, by purposely and knowingly releasing more than 2 million illegal aliens into the interior of the United States.”
“President Biden has intentionally facilitated a complete and total invasion at the southern border,” Boebert listed.
People haven't fully understood the genius of what @LaurenBoebert is doing with these impeachment articles.
These articles are crafted in a special way through the Parliamentarian that FORCES a vote of each member on the record.
This isn't just noise. This is the first real… pic.twitter.com/0a2r1ajIWP
— Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) June 21, 2023
After filing the articles of impeachment, Boebert appeared on War Room with Steve Bannon on Wednesday morning to discuss the likelihood of her effort succeeding. She told Bannon that House leadership – presumably McCarthy and Majority Leader Steve Scalise – are privately working against the impeachment.
“I have not heard of support from leadership,” Boebert told Bannon, “there was encouragement not to bring this up.”
Rep Boebert explains that Republican leadership is not supporting her resolution to impeach Joe Biden right now.
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— Grace Chong 🇺🇸 (@gc22gc) June 21, 2023
This morning Greene signed on to the plan in a lengthy post on Twitter, contradicting earlier reports she spoke against the impeachment vote privately.
“Impeaching Joe Biden is the will of our voters, because of the overwhelming amount of evidence proving his crimes,” Greene wrote. “Impeaching other Biden officials is the will of our voters, because we must stop the weaponized government protecting Biden while persecuting his political enemies.”
“Impeachment is the right thing to do by holding those who break the law accountable,” wrote Greene.
Appearing to aim her remarks at Republican leadership, Greene then targeted moderates within the party.
” And being on the team does not mean bending over to vote for moderates so they don’t have to take a hard vote. Being on the team means putting America First.”
Republicans took back the House from Democrats 5 times in the past 100 years, including 2022.
Only 2 times Republicans held the House. That’s because Rs honored the will of their voters who sent them there.
Impeaching Joe Biden is the will of our voters, because of the…
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 21, 2023
Earlier this morning it was reported that McCarthy advised the Republican conference against forcing a vote on impeachment, rhetorically asking his colleagues, “What majority do we want to be?” He continued, according to CNN, “Give it right back in two years or hold it for a decade and make real change?”
Republicans only need to attain a simple majority in the U.S. House to successfully impeach Biden, however, the party seems unlikely to attain the two-third majority required to convict a president in the U.S. Senate.
Still, should the Republicans successfully impeach Biden with a simple majority, he would join a small list of modern presidents who suffered the stain of successful House impeachment proceedings.
42nd President Bill Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House in December of 1998, and 45th President Donald Trump was impeached twice, first in 2019 for claims he illegally sought information about alleged crimes committed by Joe Biden from the government of Ukraine, and the second in 2021 over claims he incited an insurrection on January 6. Neither president was convicted in the U.S. Senate.
Prior to the impeachment of Clinton, the last president to be impeached by the House was 17th President Andrew Johnson in 1868. Johnson’s conviction failed by one vote in the U.S. Senate.
