Schumer expected to move quickly to dismiss Mayorkas impeachment

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Source: The Hill

04/04/24 6:00 AM ET


Senate aides say they expect Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to immediately dismiss the impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after the House impeachment managers present them next week.

One Senate GOP aide said Schumer is expected to schedule a vote on a motion to dismiss or a motion to table the charges. Schumer also could refer the matter to a special evidentiary committee, but Senate Democrats worry that doing so could help validate the two counts against Mayorkas, which Schumer has panned as “a sham” and “absurd.”

A Senate GOP aide who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter said Mayorkas’s impeachment won’t take up much time on the Senate floor.

“There’s not going to be a trial. I don’t think we’ll even get a resolution” to govern the floor process, said the aide. The aide said Schumer is expected to offer a motion to dismiss or a motion to table the day after the House impeachment managers formally present the charges to the Senate on April 10.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4573379-senate-schumer-mayorkas-impeachment/

[Midnight Writer]

1. Is it selfish of me to be disappointed because I wanted to watch Marge as Impeachment Manager?

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3. They still must be allowed to present their case

so howler monkey will be there to belt out her finest screeches.

[riversedge]

5. I had forgotten about mtg being appointed a manager. Oh well, I am sure she

will whine about something else.

[mwooldri]

2. I'm sure there's a way to do this.

Just schedule some kind of vote that needs 60 of them. Then filibuster it. Problem solved.

[dutch777]

4. Dismiss it, don't just table it. Stop the stupidity for God's and our sanity's sake

[riversedge]

6. "Any motion to dismiss or table the charges against Mayorkas would need only a simple majority to pass....

I also hope Schumer just dismisses it.


...........Any motion to dismiss or table the charges against Mayorkas would need only a simple majority to pass. Democrats now hold a 51-49 seat advantage.

A vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment may get Republican support, as several GOP senators have expressed skepticism about the strength of the House GOP’s case against Mayorkas.