GOP makes case for Mayorkas impeachment,but Dems see no high crimes

House Republicans on Wednesday opened a series ofhearings dedicated to impeaching Homeland SecuritySecretary Alejandro Mayorkas - embarking down theroad of removing a Cabinet secretary for the secondShow more

time in history.

In many ways the hearing was like any other the HouseHomeland Security Committee has held over the pastyear - focusing on the "havoc" immigration hascreated in the heartland, a nod to a popular Republicanrefrain that every state is now a border state.But in a shift, the witnesses - three state attorneysgeneral and a law professor-were asked to beexperts on impeachment, with members squaring offover whether Republicans had found any evidence toback the constitutional standard of removal fromoffice for high crimes and misdemeanors.