The first impeachment trial in the US in a century and a half: the Republican impeachment of the Secretary of Homeland Security for mismanagement. The Republican bench managed to carry out, on the second attempt and by a single vote difference, a political trial against a member of the Government.
The House of Representatives voted this Tuesday, by 214 votes in favor and 213 against, to submit to an impeachment processto Mayorkas. The measure is extraordinary, not only because it had only occurred on one previous occasion with William Belknap in 1876.