Republican Lawmakers Weigh Impeachment of Harris for Coverup 

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Vice President Kamala Harris is facing strong opposition from Republicans in her quest to fill Joe Biden’s shoes.  

Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles has started the process to impeach Harris over her failure over the border and her months-long coverup of her boss’s declining mental health. 

The first reason for her impeachment is her “willful refusal to uphold the immigration laws.” The charge argues that Vice President Harris didn’t do enough to manage border security and immigration laws despite being responsible for them.  

Early in his administration, Biden chose Harris to address the main reasons behind immigration. Harris has refused to visit the border’s “hot spots,” allowed millions of illegal immigrants to swarm across the border, and stood by as violent illegals and potential terrorists fled into the country’s interior. She decided the “root cause” of illegal immigration was, absurdly, climate change. 

She hasn’t visited the southern border or countries south of it since January 2022. 

The second article of impeachment is a “breach of public trust.” It accuses her of misleading the public and Congress about President Biden’s health and abilities. 

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) wrote on X that Vice President Harris lied before and will lie again. She agrees that Joe Biden is not fit to run for president and, therefore, is not fit to serve. Tenney argues that Harris covered this up and says the 25th Amendment should be used immediately. 

Calls for using the 25th Amendment increased while President Biden was in Delaware for six days with a COVID-19 diagnosis. After feeling a lot of public pressure, Biden decided to drop out of the 2024 election race on Sunday, almost a month after his poor debate performance. 

Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) said it makes sense to question if the President is fit to govern if he isn’t fit to run for office. He believes the President is not as capable as he was a few years ago. Johnson said the 25th Amendment is there so people close to the President can decide if he’s doing the job well, and he hopes that assessment is happening now. 

The 25th Amendment provides a straightforward process for handling situations where the President cannot fulfill their duties, either temporarily or permanently. 

If the President dies or resigns, the Vice President becomes the President. If the Vice President’s position becomes vacant, the President picks a new Vice President, who must be approved by both the House and Senate.  

If the President is temporarily unable to perform their duties, the Vice President acts as President. President Reagan temporarily transferred power to Vice President George H. W. Bush while undergoing surgery for a colon cancer operation. Similarly, George H. W. Bush invoked Section 3 while undergoing a medical procedure. Vice President Dan Quayle served as Acting President during the procedure. 

If the Vice President and most of the President’s Cabinet believe the President can’t do their job, they can declare the President unable to fulfill their duties in writing. The Vice President then takes over as Acting President. If the President disagrees, Congress has to decide what happens next. This has never happened before. 

Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MS) wrote a letter to President Biden’s Cabinet members, asking them to invoke the 25 Amendment. In the letters, Schmitt said that if President Biden admits he can’t continue as the Democratic nominee for President because of his health, he can’t serve the rest of his term. 

Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Monday that he was still deciding whether to bring the resolution up for a vote in the House. Congress can’t use the 25th Amendment alone. The President’s Cabinet and the Vice President are responsible for invoking it. The resolution would just put more pressure on them to act. 

Harris continued to cover for Biden, even as his mental health steadily declined on the national and world stage. The articles of impeachment seek to hold her accountable for lying to the American people about Biden’s ability to govern. 

The Democrat-controlled Senate will not impeach Harris. Her vote is the tiebreaker on the Senate floor, and she will not vote to impeach herself. Should she recuse herself, as logic seems to dictate she should in that situation, pulling the measure across the finish line will still be a hard sell. 

But Republicans continue to make noise, mostly to draw attention to Harris’s complicity in the scandalous coverup. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) said, ‘We cannot have a Commander in Chief in charge of the nuclear codes who is experiencing the level of cognitive decline that we see in President Biden.”  

Nor should the U.S. have a president who had a significant role in hiding it from the American people.