Senate Republicans Push for Full Mayorkas Impeachment Trial

A group of Senate Republicans are pushing for the chamber to hold a comprehensive impeachment trial against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, urging leadership to “ensure that the Senate conducts a proper trial,” despite a Democratic majority that’s expected to move quickly to dismiss the effort.

The House voted to impeach Mayorkas last week, the first time a Cabinet secretary has been impeached in nearly 150 years. House Republicans took the rare step toward removing Mayorkas from office, accusing the secretary under two articles of impeachment of “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and a “breach of public trust.” A handful of Republicans and all Democrats voted against impeaching him.

But the effort is all but certain to die in the Democratic-controlled Senate, which has the final say over removing officials under the Constitution. Many Senate Republicans have balked at the House’s Mayorkas impeachment, making clear that it has no chance in the upper chamber, but some conservatives are pushing for the Senate to “fully engage our Constitutional duty and hold a trial.”

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