Impeachment

Tony Bobulinski left, and Lev Parnas are sworn in before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. An empty chair center, reserved for Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son, who did not show for the hearing. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Republicans make last-ditch request for Biden to testify as impeachment inquiry winds down

The House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is winding down as Republicans have yet to find hard evidence of presidential wrongdoing. But Rep.

President Joe Biden arrives at the White House from a campaign trip to Michigan, Thursday, March 14, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

White House encourages House Republicans to ‘move on’ from their Biden impeachment effort

Hunter Biden departs after a closed door private deposition with House committees leading the President Biden impeachment inquiry, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House Republicans invite Hunter Biden and former associates for a public hearing in mid-March

FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday , Feb. 23, 2024. Paxton beat impeachment and now he wants political revenge. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton beat impeachment. Now he wants Super Tuesday revenge on his foes

Hunter Biden departs after a closed door private deposition with House committees leading the President Biden impeachment inquiry, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House Republicans send new Justice Department subpoenas in impeachment inquiry, drawing pushback

Hunter Biden’s lawyer after deposition: Republicans “end the day where they started.”

Hunter Biden’s lawyer after deposition: Republicans “end the day where they started.”

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Hunter Biden, left, son of President Joe Biden, arrives with attorney Abbe Lowell at the O'Neill House Office Building for a closed-door deposition in a Republican-led investigation into the Biden family, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Lawmakers from the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the House Judiciary Committee are conducting the inquiry. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hunter Biden in defiant deposition blasts GOP, insists he did not involve his father in business

Hunter Biden has appeared on Capitol Hill for a defiant closed-door deposition with lawmakers. He blasted the Republican impeachment inquiry into his father and the family’s business affairs as a “house of cards” built on “lies” as he faced a battery of probing questions.

Hunter Biden’s years of personal grief and public missteps are focus of House impeachment probe

In the fall of 2015, Joe Biden had chosen to forgo a White House run, preparing to enter private life for the first time in his long political career.

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. But the chamber is expected to spend far less time on the impending trial of Mayorkas than for former President Donald Trump's two trials, or maybe no time at all. The Republican-controlled House impeached Mayorkas Feb. 13, 2024, over the Biden administration's handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. But two thirds of the Senate would be needed to convict Mayorkas, and no Democrats have signaled openness to voting to remove him from office. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Senate leaders likely to seek quick dismissal of Mayorkas impeachment case

For the third time in five years, senators will be sworn in as jurors for an impeachment trial. But the chamber is expected to spend far less time on the impending trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas than for former President Donald Trump’s two trials, or maybe no time at all.

Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, center, leaves the courthouse on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Las Vegas. Prosecutors say that Smirnov, who is charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, had contacts with Russian intelligence-affiliated officials. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

How is an ex-FBI informant charged with lying about Bidens allegedly linked to Russian intelligence?

Federal prosecutors say the explosive allegations at the center of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden were false and came from an ex-FBI informant who said he was in touch with Russian intelligence.

James Biden, the brother of President Joe Biden, steps out of a private interview with House Republicans during a break at Thomas P. O'Neill House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

James Biden tells GOP lawmakers that Joe Biden had no involvement in the family’s business dealings

Joe Biden’s brother has told lawmakers that the president “never had any involvement” in the family’s business dealings.

President Joe Biden, center, talks to his grandson Beau, left, as son Hunter Biden, right, looks on after dining at The Ivy in Los Angeles, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. Today is Hunter Biden's birthday. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company

An FBI informant has been charged with lying to authorities about a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme between President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company.

FILE - House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., arrives to begin the impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas over the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, Jan. 30, 2024, at the Capitol in Washington. On Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, Green announced that he won't run for a fourth term, pointing to the recent impeachment of Mayorkas as among the reasons it was “time for me to return home.” (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Homeland chairman announces retirement a day after leading Mayorkas’ impeachment

Tennessee Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Green has announced that he won’t run for a fourth term. Green has served in the 7th Congressional District, which encompass a portion of Nashville, since 2019.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas arrives to a news conference about security for NFL's Super Bowl 58 football game, in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The House has impeached the Homeland Security secretary. Here’s what you should know and what’s next

The Republican-controlled House has impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. It was their second attempt after a vote last week fell short.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas listens during a news conference about security for NFL's Super Bowl 58 football game, in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

GOP-led House impeaches Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas — by one vote — over border management

The U.S. House has voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S-Mexico border.

FILE - Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., speaks to reporters after Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., the GOP whip, dropped out of the speaker race, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Gallagher announced his retirement Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024, just days after he refused to vote with his fellow House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Gallagher says he won’t run for Congress again after refusing to impeach Homeland Security chief

U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher says he won’t run for a fifth term in Congress. The Wisconsin Republican announced his retirement Saturday, just days after he refused to vote with his fellow House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Broken Congress: It can’t fix the border, fund allies or impeach Mayorkas as GOP revolts

Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas was not, in fact, impeached, by the House. A border security package instantly collapsed in the Senate.

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. As Republicans in the House of Representatives threaten to make Mayorkas the first Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years, Mayorkas says, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, he is “totally focused on the work" that his agency of 260,000 people conducts and not distracted by the politics of impeachment. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The GOP-controlled House fails to impeach the homeland security secretary. What could come next?

The House has failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, attends a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on worldwide threats to the United Statesy, Nov. 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. As Republicans in the House of Representatives threaten to make Mayorkas the first Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years, Mayorkas says, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, he is “totally focused on the work" that his agency of 260,000 people conducts and not distracted by the politics of impeachment. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

House vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas fails, thwarted by Republican defections

In a dramatic setback, House Republicans have failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

FILE - Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on threats to the homeland, Oct. 31, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. As Republicans in the House of Representatives threaten to make Mayorkas the first Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years, Mayorkas says, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, he is “totally focused on the work" that his agency of 260,000 people conducts and not distracted by the politics of impeachment. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Mayorkas is driven by his own understanding of the immigrant experience. Many in GOP want him gone

Supporters of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he brings a prosecutor’s tenacity and a personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to the job of running the sprawling agency.

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. As Republicans in the House of Representatives threaten to make Mayorkas the first Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years, Mayorkas says, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, he is “totally focused on the work" that his agency of 260,000 people conducts and not distracted by the politics of impeachment. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Mayorkas is driven by his own understanding of the immigrant experience. Many in GOP want him gone

Supporters of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he brings a prosecutor’s tenacity and a personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to the job of running the sprawling agency.

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, attends a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on worldwide threats to the United Statesy, Nov. 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. As Republicans in the House of Representatives threaten to make Mayorkas the first Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years, Mayorkas says, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, he is “totally focused on the work" that his agency of 260,000 people conducts and not distracted by the politics of impeachment. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

As impeachment looms, Homeland Security secretary says his agency will not be distracted by politics

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he is “totally focused on the work” that his agency does and is not distracted by politics.

FILE - James Biden arrives at the White House to attend the State Dinner for South Korea, Oct. 13, 2011, in Washington. James Biden will appear before Republicans for a private interview In February 2024 as lawmakers seek to regain some momentum in their monthslong impeachment inquiry into his brother, President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

James Biden agrees to a private interview with House Republicans investigating the president

James Biden will appear before Republicans for a private interview next month as lawmakers seek to regain some momentum in their monthslong impeachment inquiry into his brother, President Joe Biden.

Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., speaks at center, joined from left by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., and Rep. Glenn Ivey D-Md., as they criticize House Republicans for pursuing impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP takes party-line vote toward Mayorkas impeachment as border becomes 2024 campaign issue

House Republicans have taken a party-line vote toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over what they say is his “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce immigration laws.

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

House GOP releases impeachment articles in bid to oust Homeland Security’s Mayorkas over the border

House Republicans have released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Border Patrol South Station in Eagle Pass, Texas, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

House GOP is moving swiftly toward Mayorkas’ impeachment as Senate focuses on a border security deal

House Republicans are laying the groundwork for impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

FILE - Wisconsin state Rep. Janel Brandtjen speaks in Waukesha, Wis., Aug. 5, 2022. Wisconsin's Republican Assembly majority leader says a GOP attempt to impeach Wisconsin’s nonpartisan top elections official is nothing more than “a big show for the cameras” and will be ignored. Several Republican lawmakers, including the state Senate president, have called for Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe to be impeached over her handling of the 2020 election won by President Joe Biden. In the Assembly, state Rep. Janel Brandtjen has introduced a resolution to impeach Wolfe, but it has the support of only a handful of lawmakers. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, File)

Wisconsin Republican leader derides GOP impeachment attempt targeting state’s top elections official

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican attempt to impeach Wisconsin’s nonpartisan top elections official is nothing more than “a big show for the cameras” and will be ignored, the Assembly’s GOP majority leader said Thursday.

Otero County Representative John Block (R) is seen in attendance for the start of the 56th Legislature at the Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales)

2 New Mexico Republican lawmakers seek to impeach Democratic governor over gun restrictions

Two Republican legislators have filed a resolution aimed at initiating impeachment proceedings against Democratic Gov.

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. House Republicans are marching ahead with impeachment plans, their sights on Mayorkas as "derelict in his duty" over handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaker Mike Johnson gave his nod to Wednesday's hearing at the Homeland Security Committee.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

As House GOP launches effort to impeach Mayorkas, senators want to strike a border deal with him

House Republicans are marching ahead with impeachment plans targeting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as “derelict in his duty” over handling of the U.S.

FILE - Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows speaks at an event, Jan. 4, 2023, in Augusta, Maine. Republicans who want to remove Maine's secretary of state from office in the wake of her decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot will face long odds against an influential member of the state's majority-holding Democratic party. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine House votes down GOP effort to impeach election official who removed Trump from ballot

Democrats who control the Maine Legislature have turned back a Republican effort to impeach the state’s top election official for her decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot.

FILE - Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows speaks at an event, Jan. 4, 2023, in Augusta, Maine. Republicans who want to remove Maine's secretary of state from office in the wake of her decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot will face long odds against an influential member of the state's majority-holding Democratic party. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Republicans want to impeach the Maine official who cut Trump from the ballot. They face long odds

Republicans want to unseat Maine’s secretary of state for barring former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot.

FILE - Secretary of State Shenna Bellows speaks at an event, Jan. 4, 2023, in Augusta, Maine. Bellows on Thursday, Dec. 28, removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally in a decision that has potential Electoral College consequences. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine secretary of state who opted to keep Trump off primary ballot is facing threat of impeachment

Maine’s top election official could face an impeachment attempt in the state Legislature over her decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the primary ballot.

FILE - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz attends her first hearing as a justice, Sept. 7, 2023, in Madison, Wis. The Republican leader of Wisconsin’s Assembly who had threatened possible impeachment of Protasiewicz over her views on redistricting now says such a move is “super unlikely.” (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin leader pivots, says impeachment of state Supreme Court justice over redistricting unlikely

The Republican leader of Wisconsin’s Assembly who had threatened possible impeachment of a new liberal state Supreme Court justice over her views on redistricting now says such a move is “super unlikely.”

Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Patience Roggensack and other members gather for Governor Scott Walker's state budget address at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wis. Wednesday, February 20, 2013. An open records lawsuit against former Chief Justice Roggensack was dismissed Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, after Roggensack turned over all records she had related to her work investigating possible impeachment of a sitting justice. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart, File)

Lawsuit against former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice dismissed after she turns over records

An open records lawsuit against former Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack has been dismissed after Roggensack turned over all records she had related to her work investigating possible impeachment of a sitting justice.

President Joe Biden walks from Marine One upon arrival on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, in Washington. Biden is returning from Minnesota. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The House approves an impeachment inquiry into Biden, which will extend into his reelection run

Every Republican rallied behind the politically charged process despite lingering concerns among some in the party.

FILE — Franklin County Sheriff candidate John Grismore poses for a photo, Oct. 7, 2022, in St. Albans, Vt. Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, told a special legislative committee formed to investigate his possible impeachment that he was lawfully elected and would not abandon his position to appease outsiders. The Vermont Sheriffs' Association earlier in the day called for him to resign after a state panel found that he violated Vermont's use of force policy by kicking a shackled prisoner and voted that he lose his law enforcement certification. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File)

Vermont sheriff says he won’t resign for kicking shackled detainee, despite growing pressure

The Vermont Sheriffs’ Association is calling for a sheriff to immediately resign after the Vermont Criminal Justice Council last week voted that he permanently lose his ability to enforce the law for violating the state’s use of force policy.