Charlie calls for the impeachment of President Biden over his unconstitutional student-loan plans, much the same as President Trump should have been impeached over his illegal border-wall funding and over January 6, and President Obama should have been impeached over his unconstitutional DACA order.
Reclaiming the impeachment power would be valuable, as it has been effectively erased by congressional impotence. Ours is a system of checks and balances, and Congress has effectively given up one of its checks on the executive branch by refusing to impeach and convict officials who violate their oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
One other such official is Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, who is the one set to execute the illegal student-loan action. It was his office of general counsel that produced the specious bit of legal “reasoning” to justify this action, and it will be he who unilaterally adds about $1 trillion to the deficit without congressional approval.
Cardona would join William Belknap, secretary of war under President Grant, as the only other Cabinet secretary to be impeached. Belknap’s was a fairly straightforward case of corruption, and he resigned in 1876. The House learned that he had resigned and still made it a point to impeach him anyway. The Senate went ahead with a trial and a vote to convict, even though he was already out of office. The vote failed because a sufficient number of senators believed they did not have the power to convict an official who had already left office, but they all agreed he was guilty. It would be nice to see that level of vigor in the legislative branch again.
And then when the impeachment proceedings against Cardona are complete, abolish the Department of Education, which is unconstitutional and unnecessary, and may even be harmful to education in the United States.