With rumblings that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, plans to table and not even hold an impeachment hearing to try Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Republican senators are demanding that the U.S. Constitution be followed and a trial be held.
Mayorkas was the first sitting cabinet member to be impeached in U.S. history when the Republican-lef House did so Feb. 13. He was impeached on two counts: willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and breach of public trust.
U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, sent a letter this week to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, signed by several senators, saying it is imperative that the U.S. Senate Republican Conference prepare “to fully engage our constitutional duty and hold a trial.”
“According to multiple briefings by your staff, Majority Leader Schumer and Senate Democrats intend to dispense with the articles of impeachment by simply tabling both individually,” Schmitt wrote. “This is an action rarely contemplated and never taken by the US Senate in the history of our Republic.”
