Senate To Begin Impeachment Trial For Alejandro Mayorkas April 11

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WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Thursday that he plans to send articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10, calling on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to hold a full trial and hear GOP arguments in favor of Mayorkas being ousted from his job.

“I just want to get rid it of as quickly as possible. You go down that path that’s a slippery slope, you’re never stopped,” Sen. Joe Manchin called“I haven’t heard yet any evidence to suggest that there’s been a constitutional standard met for impeachment,”Sen. Mitt Romney . “We’ll see what they come up with, but so far they’ve got nothing.”

The House GOP vote to impeach Mayorkas barely squeaked by a margin of 214 to 213. The two articles of impeachment accuse Mayorkas of “willful” refusal to comply with immigration laws, and of breaching public trust. They blame him for the government failing to adequately manage a surge in migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, in what is essentially a policy dispute with President. But since House Republicans don’t have the votes to impeach Biden, they decided to go after Mayorkas instead.

 

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