What Is the Reason for the Senate Dismissal of a Trial for Mayorkas?

A historical precedent was set today when the United States Senate dismissed the House of Representatives’ impeachment case against Alejandro Mayorkas, Homeland Security Secretary. According to Virginia Allen at The Daily Signal, the result was 51-48 on a party-line vote.

The interesting point to me is that my senior senator voted “present.” Then the Senate voted 51-49 to reject the second charge against Mayorkas. Since the Democrats hold a majority in the Senate because three independents vote with them, the only slight surprise is Murkowski, the fake Republican, a real RINO.

In dismissing the case, the Senate ended a year-long attempt by the House to hold Mayorkas accountable for the illegal immigration invasion at America’s southern border. According to Virginia Allen at The Daily Signal, Republicans had something to say about the situation.

·         Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “Democrats concluded that Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas’ defying federal law, ignoring the text of the [immigration] statute, deliberately releasing criminal illegal aliens over and over and over again, that’s just hunky-dory.” He warned that the dismissal “sends a message to other members of the Cabinet.

·         Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) declared the trial of Mayorkas to be unnecessary because it represents “the least legitimate, least substantive, and most politicized impeachment trial ever in the history of the United States.” He declared that the charges made by the House “fail to meet the high standards of high crimes and misdemeanors” and a “dangerous precedent” would be made for the future if the Senate validated the “gross abuse by the House.”

·         Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) did not agree with Schumer. He told his colleagues from the Senate floor after the vote that “it does not make any difference whether our friends on the other side thought [Mayorkas] should have been impeached or not.

“He was [impeached]. And by doing what we just did, we have in effect ignored the directions of the House, which were to have a trial…. This is a day that’s not a proud day in the history of the Senate.

·         Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) lamented on the Senate floor after the vote that “nothing like this has ever occurred.

“We’ve been given a duty, we’ve been given the sole, exclusive power to try all impeachments. Try all impeachments…. Not some of them, not just those with which we happen to agree, not just those that we are happy that the House of Representatives undertook to prosecute, but all.”

·         Representative Mark Green (R-Tennessee), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said the following in a written statement after the Senate dismissed the case:

“However, just as Secretary Mayorkas has grievously failed in his constitutional duty, now so has the Senate…. Instead of addressing the serious charges against Secretary Mayorkas, the upper chamber has chosen to neglect its responsibility. This is an unprecedented failure by the Senate to do its duty, which, for the first time in our history, has outright refused to conduct an impeachment trial when given the opportunity to do so.”

Once again, Democrats showed that they are not interested in protecting Democracy. They are willing to break any law or precedence if it furthers their agenda.