The Democrats are plotting to do away with an impeachment trial for Alejandro Mayorkas, even though it is unconstitutional. That is not surprising considering the low esteem Democrats have for the US Constitution. What they plan on doing is nothing. They are just going to ignore whatever the House sends them. Basically, they are claiming liberal privilege. We have all sorts of laws to prevent the entire world from invading this country and stealing the jobs of the poorest Americans.
The House of Representatives impeached Mayorkas in February on two articles. They are a “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and a “breach of the public trust.” Mayorkas and the pervert with dementia have allowed 7 million illegal aliens to enter this country as they divert money from Americans in order to support the invaders. They are even evicting our veterans and giving that space to the illegals.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told the Daily Caller News Foundation:
“I think it has never been done before in the history of our nation and we’re going to vigorously oppose it. I think it is [unconstitutional].”
Andrew McCarthy, a senior fellow at National Review Institute and Fox News legal contributor, told the DCNF:
“The right thing to do would be to refer it to the Judiciary Committee to conduct a trial and make a report to the full Senate. [T]hey’ve calculated that it’s better to take some heat for refusing to hold a trial than to allow House Republican impeachment managers and Senate Republicans in the Judiciary Committee make a public record on Biden administration border policy in the high-profile context of an impeachment trial against a Biden cabinet member.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELRepublican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said:
“We have a constitutional responsibility to take up that impeachment and render a verdict and just dismissing it I don’t think is an adequate way of rendering a verdict. [F]or them to be able to just table it rather than actually go through the process, I think they’ll regret it at the end of the day.”
On March 28, House Speaker Mike Johnson and 11 Republicans who will serve as “impeachment managers” wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer demanding that the Senate hold a full trial for Mayorkas, citing the Senate’s “constitutional duty” to do so.
“We call upon you to fulfill your constitutional obligation to hold this trial,” Johnson and the signatories wrote. “To table articles of impeachment without ever hearing a single argument or reviewing a piece of evidence would be a violation of our constitutional order and an affront to the American people whom we all serve.”
Other Republican senators — who will serve as sworn members of the jury that renders a verdict in the trial, as required by the Constitution — have attacked the proposal.
“The Constitution, Senate rules and precedent are clear: The Senate has an obligation to vote on articles of impeachment,” wrote Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah in an article published in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. “[W]hen sitting as a court of impeachment, the chamber operates under special rules that resemble a court’s process to preserve justice, protect the accused person’s due-process rights, and ultimately render judgment on the charges. The impeachment rules have no provision for a motion to table.”
Currently, the Senate’s rules regarding impeachment indicate that it is required to hold a trial after receiving articles from the House.
“The Majority Leader is expected to take the completely unprecedented step of voting to table the impeachment articles and eliminate a trial entirely, in violation of the Constitution,” Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a candidate for leadership of the conference, remarked on the Senate floor on Monday. “This would be the first time in our nation’s history that the Senate failed to do its duty to consider evidence, hear witnesses, and allow Senators to vote guilty or not guilty. This would be a dangerous precedent to set.”
