The violence unleashed on the American people by the Department of Homeland Security must end forthwith. Kristi Noem should be fired immediately, or we will commence impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives, said Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, along with his two deputies, Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar, in a joint statement. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
Peru's interim president, Jose Jeri, has denied lying to the country and claimed he was the victim of a plot to discredit him amid a growing political scandal over his secretive meetings with Chinese businessmen. Jeri, 39, who took office in October after his predecessor Dina Boluarte was forced out, told a congressional oversight committee on Wednesday that he had been the target of a smear campaign designed to destabilise the country ahead of elections in April.
A gay couple in Washington, D.C. is stuck in limbo after ICE detained one husband, a Panamanian immigrant, during what had long been treated as a routine immigration check-in. Plus, Renee Good's family has retained the same law firm as George Floyd's to launch a civil investigation into her killing, and Rep. Robin Kelly has filed articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, saying she's led a "reign of terror."
It's not possible to have a real impeachment; however, they want to make a record that President Lai would be the first president considered impeached in the history of Taiwan's democracy, said Yen-tu Su, an expert in constitutional law and democratic theory at Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top research institution. It's a way to register their protest. It's a way to humiliate the president, and also a way to retaliate against the executive branch refusal to promulgate legislation passed by the legislators, he told Al Jazeera.