House Republicans Tuesday walked through the corridors of the Capitol to deliver the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate.
Fox News watched the hallways until the parade of Republican House members, including a grinning Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), appeared for the “historic” walk. It is the first time in modern history that a member of the Cabinet was impeached by the House. The Democratic-controlled Senate is not expected to convict Mayorkas, but it is unclear what, exactly, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans do to.
Forty-three Republican Senators drafted a letter to hold an impeachment trial against Mayorkas. Democratic Senators have indicated that the articles will be promptly dismissed. In a statement made last week, Schumer said that the Senate was ready to “address this issue as expeditiously as possible.” On the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, he addressed the transmission of the articles and what would happen next:
[O]nce we receive the articles, the Senate will convene on Wednesday as a court of impeachment and Senators will be sworn in as jurors. Senate President Pro Tem Patty Murray will preside.As I have said repeatedly, we want to address this issue as expeditiously as possible. Impeachment should never be used to settle a policy disagreement.Let me say that again: impeachment should never be used to settle a policy disagreement. Talk about awful precedents. This would set an awful precedent for
Congress. Every time there’s a policy agreement in the House, they send it over here and tie the Senate in knots to do an impeachment trial? That’s absurd. That’s an abuse of the process. That is more chaos.Nevertheless, when the House is ready to send us the articles, the Senate will act.
Mayorkas was impeached by a razor-thin, party-line vote of 214-213 in February, a week after another attempt to impeach him failed. Republicans placed the failure of border policies on Mayorkas; they also killed a bipartisan border bill that was authored by the conservative Sen. James Lankford (R-OK).
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