Fresh off of cajoling and appeasing far-right members of the House Republican caucus to go along with his budget proposal to keep the government running, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is now dealing with a new "headache," Politico is reporting.
As Rachel Bade and Meredith Lee Hill are reporting, the latest shiny object that has caught the eye of the House GOP's far-right members is making a push to impeach judges who are balking at Donald Trump's wide-ranging executive orders when there is little chance of success.
According to the report, efforts to impeach a judge rarely come to fruition due "to the 67-vote requirement in the Senate for removal."
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With some House members like freshman Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) boasting of filing articles of impeachment, some of their GOP colleagues are growing aggravated with the performative sideshow doomed to failure.
"But privately there is dread inside Johnson’s leadership circle about the prospect of having to pursue messy, certain-to-fail impeachments that could ultimately backfire on the GOP’s razor-thin majority," Politico is reporting with a senior House Republican aide admitting, “It’s never going to happen. There aren’t the votes," and another agreeing by stating, "It would be such a heavy lift and we’ve got too many heavy lifts coming up. What is the endgame here?"
The report added, "A third said GOP leaders and even some conservative House members are 'rolling their eyes' at the impeachment filings that 'aren’t going to go anywhere.'"
That has put Johnson in an unenviable position of having to quash the latest initiative, which Donald Trump is also encouraging in interviews and on social media, at the same time he is pushing the president's MAGA agenda.
"Trump’s intervention this time could change that calculation — even as he stares down a punishing self-imposed deadline for advancing a massive tax, energy and border policy package before his members leave Washington next month for the Easter and Passover break. Johnson is heavily reliant on Trump to maintain his tenuous control over his fractious conference, and senior Republicans believe the speaker will likely need to offer some sort of concession to serve as a release valve as pressure builds on the MAGA right," Politico is reporting.
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