Honest and good-hearted political representatives can disagree about policies for implementing the federal government’s responsibility to protect our safety and freedoms. But they have no excuse for allowing public officials to violate the rule of law—to violate the Constitution. Outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (KY) offered articles of impeachment of the Sec of Deference Pete Hegseth for exactly such violations.
“The House voted to refer the resolution to committee, allowing Republicans to stop it from advancing during the lame-duck session. The 211-204 vote effectively punted any efforts to impeach the Pentagon chief until Democrats take back the majority.” The Hill – House Hegseth impeachment vote blocked. While all Republicans except Massie voted to send the resolution to committee, their vote succeeded “thanks largely to almost a dozen Democrats failing to show up for the early evening vote…. due to gridlock on Pennsylvania Ave., caused by a traffic accident.”
In the recent midterm elections, the voters severely punished the Republicans for Trump’s lawless corruption. Impeaching Hegseth was an opportunity for Republicans to demonstrate that they got the message. Sadly, they chose the ignore Hegseth’s lawlessness.
“At his press conference on Monday, Massie stressed that he wasn’t seeking Hegseth’s impeachment because he was bad at his job, but because he is operating in violation of the law, and he encouraged other lawmakers to read the eight articles.
“A lot of people are saying, ‘I think Pete Hegseth is effective. He’s good at his job, and so I don’t want to vote for these articles of impeachment.’ Well, the reality is, we’re not impeaching him for being bad at his job. In fact, he was very effective at killing schoolchildren in Iran,” Massie said, referring to the February 28 US strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, southern Iran, which killed at least 156 civilians, including 120 children.
“He was very effective at extrajudicial killings [bombing speed boats in the Caribbean]. There’s no argument in these impeachment articles that he’s ineffective. The argument here is that he’s broken laws and he’s violated the Constitution,” he added. The Hill
