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Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles has filed articles of Condemnation of Vice President Kamala Harris over her handling of the southern border and for her insistence that Joe Biden was fit for the top of the Democratic ticket.
Harris has faced GOP attacks from all sides since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
Republicans have accused her of ‘covering up’ the president’s cognitive decline and demanded she invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Biden.
The first article of impeachment, ‘willful refusal to uphold the immigration laws,’ stems from her alleged ‘inaction’ with border security and immigration law as ‘border czar.’ The second article of impeachment, ‘breach of public trust,’ alleges that Harris ‘knowingly misled’ the public and Congress about ‘the physical and cognitive well-being’ of Biden.
Since Biden stepped down from the presidential race, Republicans have again begun to paint Harris as Biden’s ‘border czar’ – under an administration that saw record border crossings.
Biden appointed Harris early in his administration to deal with the ‘root causes’ of immigration.
And calls for the 25th Amendment have swelled as Biden hit out in Delaware for 6 days with a Covid-19 diagnosis and the biggest decision of his lifetime weighing over his head. The president ultimately acquiesced to public pressure and stepped down from the running for 2024 on Sunday, nearly a month after his disastrous debate performance.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, first filed a resolution just after the debate to call on Harris ‘to convene the Cabinet and declare President Joe Biden as unable to carry out his duties as Commander-in-Chief.’
Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Monday he was still considering whether to put the resolution on the House floor.
Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., has called for Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment and on Tuesday introduced articles of impeachment for the vice president failing to uphold border laws.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., wrote a letter to every one of Biden’s Cabinet members urging them to invoke the 25th Amendment.
‘If President Biden is willing to admit he is unable to continue to stand as the Democratic Party nominee for President after the primary process due to his health, he is unable to continue to serve as President until January 20, 2025,’ Schmitt said in the letters.
Democrats have scoffed at the notion.
‘That’s a Jim Crow-era tactic,’ Rep. Jonathan Jackson, D-Ill., told DailyMail.com.
‘Let the American people speak. Let’s go and vote. And I think it should also talk about whether or not a person that’s been convicted as a felon has the right to go into public housing, which is the White House.’
‘Totally stupid,’ Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Rep. Ted Lieu told DailyMail.com of the tactic. ‘He has done a phenomenal job as president, he’s going to continue doing a phenomenal job as president. The fact that he chose not to run for reelection has nothing to do with him being president right now.’
The fact that their calls will likely fall on deaf ears within the Cabinet did not deter Republicans.
‘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,’ said Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., in calling for the 25th Amendment.
‘The 25th amendment looks pretty good right about now,’ Rep. Nancy Mace, R-N.C., said on X in response to a clip of Biden caught on camera for the first time in six days.
‘She lied then, and she will lie again. Joe Biden is unfit to run for President and, therefore, unfit to serve as President, yet Vice President Harris lied to the American people and covered it up. We must immediately invoke the 25th Amendment,’ wrote Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., on X.
Congress cannot invoke the 25th Amendment – the Cabinet and vice president must agree to do that. The resolution would simply turn up pressure on them to so.
Still, the prospect of such a drastic step seems to have little opposition from even moderate Republicans.
‘It’s a sad situation and I feel bad for the president,’ Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., told DailyMail.com. ‘I just hope he’s able to govern.
‘I think it’s perfectly reasonable for somebody to ask if the President’s not fit to run as fit to govern,’ said Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D. ‘I do think the President is much diminished from even just a couple of years ago. So I think clearly the reason we have a 25th amendment is so that those within the administration closest to the president can assess whether or not he is up to the job and I would certainly hope that assessment is ongoing.’
The U.S. Constitution’s 25th Amendment states that ‘whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.’
