Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer affirmed Thursday that the upper chamber will convene a trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, despite GOP concerns about him spiking it.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer affirmed Thursday that the upper chamber will convene an impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas next month, as Republicans fear the top Democrat will find a way to spike the proceedings.
Schumer (D-NY) announced the plans after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sent him a letter of notification that the House will transmit two impeachment articles against Mayorkas to the Senate April 10.
“As we have said previously, after the House impeachment managers present the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Senators will be sworn in as jurors in the trial the next day,” the Brooklyn Democrat said in a statement.
“Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray [D-Wash.] will preside.”
Once the senators are sworn in, one of them could raise a motion to dismiss the case, which requires a simple majority to approve. If that happens, the trial of Mayorkas could end before it even starts.
Some Republicans have already suggested that is exactly what will happen.
