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Challenging the federal prosecution stemming from his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Donald Trump argued that former presidents can be prosecuted for "official acts" only if they are first impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate based on the same conduct. The Supreme Court today rejected that claim, which is based on an implausible reading of the constitutional text. At the same time, the Court held that a former president enjoys "absolute" immunity for "actions within his exclusive constitutional power," "presumptive" immunity for other "official acts," and ...
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Washington (AFP) - The Democratic-held US Senate rejected a Republican-led bid on Wednesday to oust President Joe Biden's immigration chief over his handling of the southern border with Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, 64, was impeached in February by the Republican-majority House of Representatives. Republicans are seeking to make border security a key issue in November's election and the impeachment came amid a showdown between the House and Senate over curbing a surge in illegal immigration, which hit a record 10,000 apprehensions a day at the US-Mexico border in Dece...
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Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives will send articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden's immigration chief to the Senate on April 10, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday -- sparking a trial that would likely begin the following day. House Republicans blame Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a Democrat, for a surge in illegal entries from Mexico that they have called a "humanitarian catastrophe." They impeached him in February -- the culmination of months of attacks on the Democratic administration as they seek to make border security a key issue...
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Washington (AFP) - Republicans impeached US President Joe Biden's immigration chief on Tuesday, the culmination of months of attacks on the Democratic administration as they seek to make border security a key issue in November's election. Conservatives in the House of Representatives, which is narrowly controlled by Republicans, blame Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a surge in illegal entries from Mexico that they have called a "humanitarian catastrophe." Lawmakers passed two articles accusing him of "willful and systemic refusal" to enforce immigration law and "breach of pu...
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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden won't have had an impeachment inquiry at the top of his Christmas list -- but there's a chance it could be a gift for his hopes of winning a second term as US president. The 81-year-old Democrat certainly faces an election year headache after the Republican-led House of Representatives voted, just before its holiday break, to formalize a probe into whether he profited from his son Hunter's foreign business deals. Biden's strategy for a counterattack is already clear -- dismiss it as political theater, blame a vengeful House for blocking his political plans, and eve...
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Washington (AFP) - US Republicans began impeachment inquiry hearings into Joe Biden on Thursday, escalating an eight-month corruption investigation that has failed to uncover evidence of wrongdoing by the president. The party says the information it has amassed warrants streamlining its multiple probes into an official inquiry empowered to unleash investigators from three House committees to subpoena Biden's bank records. Republicans have accused Biden of trading on the power of his office when he was vice president to help his son Hunter Biden secure lucrative foreign business deals, and of b...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House is on an offensive to discredit the Republicans' impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, directing the media to call out "disinformation" in unusual messaging that observers warn could backfire. The White House memo to the media came after Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week opened a formal impeachment inquiry, citing corruption allegations against Biden as he bowed to pressure from his party's hardliners loyal to Donald Trump. The probe has thus far not turned up any concrete evidence to back the claim that the president financially benef...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he was "not focused" on an impeachment inquiry announced a day earlier by Republican lawmakers, as his White House blasted "baseless" allegations of wrongdoing. "I don't know quite why, but they just knew they wanted to impeach me," Biden said of the Republican effort. "I get up every day... not focused on impeachment. I've got a job to do. I've got to deal with the issues that affect the American people every single solitary day," he told attendees at a private campaign fundraiser. The 80-year-old Democrat's brief remarks were his first...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House on Wednesday rejected "baseless" allegations of wrongdoing against US President Joe Biden after Republican lawmakers launched an impeachment inquiry against him. While the 80-year-old Democrat remained silent when asked by reporters about the probe, his spokeswoman pushed back against the investigation by his political foes. "They have spent all year investigating the president... and have turned up with no evidence, none, that he did anything wrong," Biden's Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. "That's because the president didn't do anything w...
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Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump was impeached by Congress in late 2019 for extorting Ukraine in an unsuccessful effort to get up dirt on his reelection rival Joe Biden. Four years later, Republicans are moving to impeach now-President Biden, claiming they have the dirt Trump sought: that while vice president, Biden personally benefitted from his son Hunter's business dealings. Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday announced he was ordering an impeachment inquiry into the Democratic leader -- a move demanded for months by Trump and his right-wing backers in Congress. But in contras...
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