The impeachment trial of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in the United States Senate, scheduled for 1 PM Eastern on Wednesday, ended swiftly with a historic dismissal by the Democrats.
At the urging of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the Senate voted to dismiss both articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, who has overseen the severe border crisis in American history.
Democrats voted along party lines to deem the first article, accusing Mayorkas of “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law,” as unconstitutional.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (RINO-Alaska) voted present.
51-48-1, Senate votes to kill the first impeachment article. Murkowski lone defector. She voted “present.” Schumer now wants to move to kill second impeachment article.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 17, 2024
In this instance, Democrats deemed the second article accusing Mayorkas of a “breach of public trust” as unconstitutional.
Murkowski sided with her Republican counterparts in this vote.
Senate kills second article of impeachment against Mayorkas, it goes down on a 51-49 party-line vote. Murkowski sides with Rs after voting “present” on the first article
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 17, 2024
They then voted to end the impeachment “trial” completely, again on a party-line vote.
BREAKING: The Senate has voted 51-49 to adjourn the impeachment trial of Sec. Mayorkas, ending the impeachment. pic.twitter.com/Sel3BLFZD0
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 17, 2024
From Townhall.com:
Last week, 43 Republican members of the United States signed a letter to Schumer highlighting the upper chamber’s “constitutional duty” that “requires the Senate to hold a trial.”
“In every previous congressional impeachment of the past 227 years, Congress has been faithful to the process set out by the framers,” the letter emphasized. “Never before has the Senate abandoned this duty, even when certain members believed the basis for impeachment was tenuous at best.”
“Since 1797, twenty-one individuals have been impeached by the House of Representatives,” the Senate Republicans’ letter further recounted. “Trials were held in every single instance, except once when an impeached judge resigned from office before the trial commenced. Absent Secretary Mayorkas’ immediate resignation, this impeachment should remain faithful to Senatorial precedent,” senators wrote.
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