Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) refusal to allow senators to hear the impeachment case against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will encourage other presidential appointees to refuse to enforce laws passed by Congress, according to Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.).
“We write the law, they execute the law,” said Mr. Green, who, as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, led the Majorkas impeachment effort.
He was referring to the Constitution’s assignment of authority to Congress to write the laws and the executive branch to enforce them.
“We have now allowed an executive branch official, a presidential cabinet-level secretary, to not only not follow the law but to violate the law, and we’ve done nothing to him other than impeach him. He gets to wear that, being the sole sitting cabinet secretary to be impeached in the whole history of the country,” Mr. Green said….
