On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and a group of Senate Republican colleagues urged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to take up the impeachment trial of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to impeach Mayorkas over the ongoing crisis at the U.S. southern border with a vote of 214-213.
Tuberville and U.S. Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) penned a letter, which was also signed by U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), saying that it "is imperative that the Senate Republican conference prepare to fully engage our Constitutional duty and hold a trial."
The letter addressed to McConnell reads as follows:
Our Republican colleagues in the House have recently passed two articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law, as well as the breach of public trust. Those articles will soon be transmitted to the Senate. It is imperative that the 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. This is an action rarely contemplated and never taken by the U.S. Senate in the history of our Republic.
It remains to be seen if the Senate rules will even allow us to brush aside our duty in this manner, but one thing is sure, if a similar strategy was contemplated by Senate Republicans when we were in the majority with a Republican occupying the White House, the opposition would be fierce and the volume from Democrats would be deafening.
We call on you to join us in our efforts to jettison this approach by Democrats to shirk their Constitutional duty, ensure that the Senate conducts a proper trial, and that every Senator, Republican and Democrat, adjudicates this matter when the Senate returns.
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