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The two impeachment articles against Mayorkas alleged a "breach of trust" related to Mayorkas describing the southern U.S. border as secure as well as a "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law."

The Democratic-led Senate killed both impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, cancelling the impeachment trial before it could get off the ground.

Schumer's motion to deem article one unconstitutional ultimately passed 51-48. He then made a motion to deem article two unconstitutional, which also passed 51-49. The Senate passed a motion to adjourn the trial.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate set a very "dangerous precedent" by ignoring the House's directions to have an impeachment trial.

"No evidence, no procedure. This is a day that's not a proud day in the history of the Senate," he said.

Lee called Schumer's move to cancel the trial without debate "historic," given that a verdict was never reached. He said that "nothing could be further" from the U.S. Constitution.

Senate Republicans had argued that the chamber should not set a precedent that lying to Congress to not an impeachable offense.

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, noted that never before the history of the U.S. have impeachment articles been dismissed before impeachment managers have a chance to present their case.

Some senators such as John Thune, R-S.D., tried to make several arguments on the floor as to why the Senate should hold a trial, including that the "worst border crisis" in U.S. history has unfolded since 2021. The presiding office, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said the Senate was not in a debatable position and called for order.

"The Senate will be in order," she said.

Schumer said earlier on Wednesday that he would allow a floor debate on the impeachment articles but called on senators to dismiss the charges.

"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," Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor.

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Schumer pulls stunts like this when he has the numbers, but wines like a little bitch when the Republicans have the numbers and do it. If it weren't for double standards, Demonrats would have no standards at all.

Democrats don't break ranks. They always vote as a block. They would not have convicted this asshole no matter what evidence was presented. But this stunt might convince a few more "independent centrists" that this is the most lawless administration in modern history. Trump can make bank on this so I actually think this is better for the election than an acquittal after a trial.

BUT Republicans always have a few RINO's that break ranks and cause measures to fail. Perhaps the new RNC chair has to make it clear to them the consequences, and then ENSURE there are consequences.

Democrats love incompetence,

Does this mean Senate Democrats just voted to support the current situation at the border and its crisis?

I was not aware that the Senate had the Constitutional authority to declare something unconstitutional.

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I was not aware that the Senate had the Constitutional authority to declare something unconstitutional.

Good point.

Hopefully, this will cost them more than five Senators in November.

The United States Constitution provides that the House of Representatives "shall have the sole Power of Impeachment" (Article I, section 2) and "the Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments … [but] no person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two-thirds of the Members present" (Article I, section 3). The president, vice president, and all civil officers of the United States are subject to impeachment.


Now I am neither a scholar nor a lawyer, but seems that language is clear enough for a high-school “B” student to comprehend that the House DECIDES to Impeach and their decision to do so confers an OBLIGATION to the Senate to CONDUCT a trial on ALL impeachments they deliver.

Either side can do their part influenced by politics, that is to be expected. They should still do their part however so there is a record and an outcome that can at least be claimed as fair and following the process.


Sounds to me like the Senate just abdicated their duty, effectively wiping their ass with the Constituton, then tossing it to the floor and daring everyone “What are you gonna do about it?”


It sickens me that our once model government has become so corrupt and illegitimate. I pray I live long enough to see it return to a shining example for the rest of the world. If that is not to be, then I die soon enough that people still remember what once was.

People need to quit calling these traitors democrats. They are all COMMUNISTS.

The Ted Cruz podcast is good it’s 3 days a week. That guy is smart and witty and would have made a good president

Kinda surprised a (D) senator on the bubble from a Red state like Tester in Montana up for re-election or the dude from West Virginia or that gal from AZ both not running again didnt screw up some stones to side with the republicans

Shameful.

The “dude” from WV let us all down in his home state. It’s why he will be replaced by a conservative next cycle.

A disgrace for the US Senate
By Victoria White Berger

There is no more room in our country for fools; we are full up. We have been bested by the best of fools — the U.S. Senate, in which today, mostly thanks to Chuck Schumer but really thanks to all the Democrats in the Senate, it has been made clear that no tradition, no constitutional respect, and no national empathy exists anymore on Capitol Hill. The American people are past being outmaneuvered and now stand askance, beaten down by the fools and rogues in D.C. with far too much power on their hands and far too weak to care. These senators all well know the critical jam we’re in with Biden’s open border — and today, they not only let us know they don’t care, but rub our noses in it, not even allowing our fears and our despair their day in court.

The Republicans were outfoxed and shamed by the most cynical “point of order” from Majority Leader Schumer at his bully pulpit. (Senator John Kennedy called Schumer’s point of order “specious,” and right he was.) Schumer unilaterally declared that the first article of impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas, brought to the Senate from the House, was ‘unconstitutional” because it did not delineate impeachable offenses. Total hogwash. Article 2 went by the boards next and in similar fashion. Every Democrat in the Senate upheld Schumer’s point of order by their votes, despite repeated attempts from the Republicans in motions to redirect, or postpone, the cataclysm. There would be no discussion, no evidence, no precedent, no postponement, and no trial — only disgrace.

Although we were forewarned of this national failure to redress, again, the Republican senators were still caught “unaware” (which they are getting very good at). We, as a people, were not forearmed for today’s grotesquery on the Hill. Awful as it is that the border crisis has overwhelmed our country, it is seriously worse, and never to be forgotten, that the Democrats allowed an unbroken tradition of the acceptable legitimacy of impeachment trials being conducted in the Senate in a fair and “just” manner. This time, the trial didn’t even make it to the floor.

Nothing says we’re broken in America like the spectacle today on the Senate floor. A “senatorial” mockery of calmness prevailed, but, underneath, the very air was stunned by an anticipated fury from the clear and large majority of the American people, entirely betrayed and summarily dismissed, with no remedy for the border crisis that is killing us.

Even as the mayors of several Democrat cities cry in their soup, regarding what the immigration crisis has brought down on them, and turn to demand far more of and from their citizens than they do of the illegals thronging the streets, the Democrats of both Senate and House refuse to acknowledge the breaking point in America brought on by Biden. We can only assume they cling to their repulsive privilege because that is all they’ve got. Soon, they will not even have that. They have already lost their dignity.

https://www.americanthinker.co...r_the_us_senate.html

Is it really unexpected, or did anyone really think that the Senate under Schumer would have a trial, no matter what the rules are, this was DOA.

Now the House did what it should do, and exposed Mayorkas, perhaps it will help come election time.

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Kinda surprised a (D) senator on the bubble from a Red state like Tester in Montana up for re-election .

Tester's not worried. They'll find just enough votes, in the trunk of a car on an Indian reservation, for him to win...again.

Sen, Cruz hits the nail on the head over and over again!

Democrats are disgusting!

Once again the Democrats set a precedent in the Senate. Once again it will bite them on the ass. It may take some time, but they know how this game is played.

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Originally posted by goose5:
Once again the Democrats set a precedent in the Senate. Once again it will bite them on the ass. It may take some time, but they know how this game is played.

I agree with this. It will come up again and they will lament that they didn't learn their lesson before.