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Republican senators were able to convince House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to delay the delivery of two impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, citing concerns that Senate Democrats will look to quickly dismiss them once a trial begins in the upper chamber.
“To ensure the Senate has adequate time to perform its constitutional duty, the House will transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate next week. There is no reason whatsoever for the Senate to abdicate its responsibility to hold an impeachment trial,” a spokesperson for Johnson told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
At least 10 Republican senators said they were actively pressuring the speaker to delay delivering the articles in order to prevent Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the Democratic caucus from tabling the trial ahead of the weekend and sending senators home shortly after, a source familiar with the situation told Fox News Digital.
Johnson had earlier told Schumer he would deliver the articles of impeachment on Wednesday, and Schumer had said proceedings would begin Thursday. However, Republicans are arguing that if the process is started on Monday, that will allow more time for debate on the matter and prevent Schumer from tabling it before the weekend.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said he was “very grateful to Speaker Johnson for his willingness to delay this.”
“We don’t want this to come over on the eve of the moment when members might be operating under the influence of jet-fume intoxication,” Lee said, adding, “It’s much better for us to do this at the beginning of a legislative week rather than toward the end of one and I thank him for doing that.”
Secretary Mayorkas is still in office. The Senate still has a responsibility to conduct a trial, and no excuse to table the articles of impeachment.
Chuck Schumer wants to ignore this responsibility. pic.twitter.com/kvdmNmgUyo
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) April 9, 2024
Lee warned Monday that Schumer wants to “table” the Mayorkas impeachment trial.
For the first time in American history, Chuck Schumer is going to ignore articles of impeachment sent from the House, because he wants to protect Democrats from the consequences of their border invasion. https://t.co/0vwKOF5Zbe
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) April 8, 2024
Back in January, Schumer fumed over the effort to impeach Mayorkas, writing, “House Republicans are moving with this sham impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas despite producing no evidence he has committed any crime. Instead of negotiating in good faith on border security, they’re denigrating our Constitution for the sake of appeasing one person only: Trump.”
House Republicans are moving with this sham impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas despite producing no evidence he has committed any crime
Instead of negotiating in good faith on border security, they’re denigrating our Constitution for the sake of appeasing one person only:
Trump
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) January 31, 2024
BREAKING: GOP senators convince Speaker Johnson to delay impeachment article deliveryhttps://t.co/TVGpHTRTyH
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 9, 2024
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