Live updates: Senate begins DHS Secretary Mayorkas' impeachment trial

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The articles of impeachment charge him with “willfully and systemically” refusing to comply with federal immigration laws and having “breached the public trust” by making false statements to Congress, including that the border is “secure.”At an unrelated event in New York today, Mayorkas mostly skirted questions on the articles of impeachment against him.

Chief Justice John Roberts will not preside over the impeachment trial — that’s only for sitting presidents. Because Mayorkas is a Cabinet member, Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray, D-Wash., will preside. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, told reporters this month: “I don’t think the constitutional test has been met.”

Schmitt, who is a part of the group of conservatives demanding a trial, said in a statement to NBC News that he is objecting because he wants a full trial, and he will not “aid Senator Schumer in lighting the match to set hundreds of years of precedent, the Senate, and our very Constitution ablaze.” "For the sake of the Senate's integrity, and to protect impeachment for those rare cases we truly need it, senators should dismiss today's charges," he said on the floor.

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