DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been impeached by the House, and now will stand before the Senate. What’s next?
According to Section 1, Clause 3 of the Constitution, “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all impeachments.”
This particular Senate, however – controlled by a Democrat majority, under the leadership of the extremely partisan Charles Schumer of New York – does not want to try this impeachment. With the crisis at the southern border topping all issues of concern for voters in recent polling, there are vulnerable Senate Democrat incumbents in red states (Sherrod Brown in Ohio and Jon Tester in Montana) and vulnerable Democrat incumbents in purple states (Bob Casey, Jr. in Pennsylvania and Jacky Rosen in Nevada) who must be concerned that a vote to let Mayorkas off the hook could be used against them on the campaign trail.
Guarding a one-vote majority, Schumer doesn’t want to force his colleagues to cast such a vote on the record.
Already, the Capitol Hill press corps is writing about the various methods Schumer may use to avoid having the Senate do its constitutional duty to hold a trial.
For instance, writes The Hill, “[I]nsiders predict Democrats will likely try to refer the matter to a special Senate committee to review the impeachment articles. It could then come up for a vote after Election Day.”
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