@SenatorWicker the better question being: Why are Republicans TRIVIALIZING impeachment with this political errand in service to Donald Trump and The Kremlin? #mayorkas
Now its Florida's Republican Senator Rick Scott who defrauded Medicare, Medicaid resulting in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history -- his turn to try to adjourn impeachment ..to drag this Fox News /Kremlin propaganda show out.
It'll fail. #mayorkas
#Senate now going through nonsensical #Republican motions re #Mayorkas#impeachment that are all being rejected. There will likely be more before a real vote on Schumer’s point of order that article I is unconstitutional.
Oh look: Famous Russian Asset, Iowa's geriatric Senator Chuck Grassley is administering the oath to Patty Murray in the House's distracting, sham impeachment -- I wonder if Chuck is reading Cyrillic or english-language text. #mayorkas
#HouseRepublicans are expected to send over articles of #impeachment against #DHS Sec #Mayorkas on Tues afternoon, kicking off what is likely to be a brief trial in the upper chamber that could conclude as soon as Wed.
Led by 11 impeachment managers appointed by #House Speaker #MikeJohnson, House #Republicans have demanded a full trial, while Senate Democrats, who hold a 51-49 majority, are planning to band together to dismiss or table the trial.
Most #Senate#Republicans, despite previously voicing issues w/the substance of the articles of #impeachment against #Mayorkas, have echoed the lower chamber’s calls for the Senate to adhere to the rules of impeachment & hold a #trial.
At least one Republican — Sen #MittRomney — has said he plans to vote against a full trial. Several others who have been critical of the impeachment have yet to stake out their position, including Sens #SusanCollins & #LisaMurkowski.
#HouseRepublicans urged Schumer to "schedule a trial on the matter expeditiously."
#Schumer & his staff have promised to start the process of swearing senators in as jurors the day after the articles are received in the chamber. Washington Senator Patty Murray, the #Senate President Pro Tempore, will preside over the #Mayorkas#impeachment trial.
The articles accuse #Mayorkas of "willful & systemic refusal to comply w/the #law" in enforcing #border policy & "breach public trust." After passage, #ChuckSchumer called the #impeachment …a "sham” & said #HouseRepublicans failed to demonstrate the Secy committed any impeachable offenses.
The #Senate is widely expected to acquit…. #Republicans in the upper chamber also expressed doubts Mayorkas' actions rise to "high crimes & misdemeanors" the standard set by the #Constitution for impeachments.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro #Mayorkas is the first cabinet secretary to be impeached by the House in almost 150 years.
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House impeaches #DHS Secy #AlejandroMayorkas, succeeding on 2nd try, in a rebuke of #Biden’s #immigration policy. The resolution is non-binding, however, & may not go very far in the #Senate bc even some #Republicans don’t believe that Mayorkas’s actions clear the bar for the high crimes & misdemeanors necessary for conviction.
#Republicans want to impeach #Mayorkas because he's #JoeBiden's appointee. That's it. The man hasn't done anything other than the job he was hired to do. Republicans can't articulate any wrongdoing by Mayorkas, and are now openly admitting that they're trying to impeach him for their own PR value. This is a more brazen violation of the public trust than even their attempts to impeach Biden himself. The effort is completely and totally without merit.
#House & #Senate Republicans have denigrated fellow lawmakers, #Biden admin officials & witnesses in #racist ways, both in casual comments & in official settings.
In private, the language was uglier. During a closed-door meeting of House #Republicans, Rep #MarkGreen (R-TN) & the panel’s chair, referred to #Mayorkas as a “reptile w/no balls” because of his refusal to resign from his post, according to Politico. A WH ofcl condemned the statement, noting that Mayorkas is #Jewish and that the comment echoed an #antisemitic trope.
If Republicans believe that Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas should be impeached for ‘not doing his job at the border’, then shouldn’t the elected Republicans who just torpedoed the $118 Billion Border Security Bill at the whim of Donald Trump also be impeached?
McClintock's position means #Republicans are down another vote as they try to impeach Mayorkas w/a razor-thin House majority. Rep #KenBuck (R-CO) is also opposed, w/several other Republicans undecided.