Vice President Kamala Harris is not yet the official nominee for the Democratic Party in the upcoming presidential election, but she is already facing strong opposition on multiple fronts from the Republicans, with one of them, Congressman Andy Ogles, introducing articles of impeachment against her.
Here is everything you need to know about the Kamala Harris impeachment.
Kamala Harris impeachment explained
On Tuesday, July 23, Andy Ogles, the Republican Congressman from the 5th congressional district of Tennessee, US, filed impeachment articles against Kamala Harris during the First Session of the 118th Congress, adding to the previously introduced articles criticizing her track record on the subject of immigration.
The article accuses Harris of having “knowingly misled the people of the United States and the Congress of the United States, principally to obfuscate the physical and cognitive well-being of the President of the United States, Joe Biden” (via The Hill).
According to the earlier impeachment articles, filed June 12, 2023, Harris had “demonstrated extraordinary incompetence in the execution of her duties and responsibilities, a stark refusal to uphold the existing immigration law, and a palpable indifference to people of the United States suffering as a result of the ongoing southern border crisis in the United States.”
The article refers to her as “border czar,” accusing her of having “failed to control the border to the detriment of national security, compromised public safety, and violated the rule of law, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.”
The incumbent President Joe Biden was initially the presumptive Democratic nominee in the upcoming election. However, he withdrew his candidacy on July 21 and endorsed Harris as the Democratic nominee in his stead.
The articles of impeachment underscore one of the biggest criticisms the Republicans have against Harris. Not long after Biden assumed office after winning the 2020 election, Harris was tasked to handle the immigration concerns on the Southern border of the US, and the Republicans largely believe that the measures she took on this matter were far from adequate.
Harris hasn’t yet responded to the recent impeachment filings.
