{"id":2217876,"date":"2024-04-10T19:39:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T23:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-gop-plots-maximum-pain-for-democrats-dismissing-mayorkas-impeachment-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T19:42:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T23:42:35","slug":"senate-gop-plots-maximum-pain-for-democrats-dismissing-mayorkas-impeachment-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-gop-plots-maximum-pain-for-democrats-dismissing-mayorkas-impeachment-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans plan to inflict &#8216;maximum pain&#8217; on Democrats by rejecting Mayorkas impeachment trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-gop-plots-maximum-pain-for-democrats-dismissing-mayorkas-impeachment-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2217876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Democrats seem set to dismiss an impeachment trial for Homeland \u200cSecurity Secretary\u2062 Alejandro Mayorkas\u2064 with sufficient votes. However, Senate Republicans plan to complicate and delay the process. \u200cVarious \u2062tactics are being considered, \u2062such\u2063 as\u200d raising points of order and creating legislative roadblocks. The unfolding situation in the Senate reflects escalating \u2064tensions between the parties. \u200dDemocrats are\u200b poised to dismiss an impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, while Senate \u200cRepublicans intend to impede and\u200d prolong the process. Strategies like\u2064 raising points of \u2062order and setting up\u2063 legislative obstacles \u200care in the works.\u2062 This dynamic in the Senate underscores the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rick-scott-to-meet-with-trump-at-mar-a-lago-amid-growing-tensions-with-gop\/\" title=\"Sen. Rick Scott to Meet With Trump at Mar-a-Lago Amid Growing Tensions With GOP\">growing tensions<\/a> between the two political\u200c parties.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Democrats appear to have the votes needed to dismiss an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alejandro-mayorkas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Alejandro Mayorkas<\/a>, but Republicans plan to make that dismissal as painful as possible with a series of maneuvers designed to slow down business on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Senate<\/a> floor.<\/p>\n<p>The chamber will receive the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/fairness-justice\/2958955\/senate-must-seriously-consider-impeachment-articles-mayorkas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>two articles of impeachment<\/a> against Mayorkas, who stands accused of willfully ignoring federal immigration law, sometime next week. As of now, the tentative plan is for House managers to walk them over on Tuesday, according to three GOP senators briefed on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will swear senators in as jurors for what ordinarily would be a trial of Mayorkas, but he is widely expected to move to table the articles, which Democrats have dismissed as politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Such a tactic would allow Democrats to avoid a drawn-out spectacle that would draw attention to the crisis at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">southern border<\/a>, an issue plaguing swing state Democrats up for election in November. And they appear to have the votes. Democrat Jon Tester (MT) has waffled on whether he would vote to table, but a handful of GOP senators have either signaled a willingness to or declined to say.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about a \u201chypothetical\u201d motion to table, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said, \u201cHypothetically, let\u2019s get done with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Senate conservatives are weighing what one Senate GOP staffer called a \u201cdeath by a million paper cuts\u201d approach to retaliation that delays the proceedings or even slows floor business in the weeks that follow.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans have reacted with outrage at the idea of skipping a trial, a move that would be unprecedented in the history of the Senate. Democrats counter that Mayorkas was impeached over a policy disagreement rather than \u201chigh crimes and misdemeanors,\u201d but conservatives plan to exact a price for what they say is an abrogation of Schumer\u2019s constitutional duties.<\/p>\n<p>Those Republicans, led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), are proposing 15 points of order they would raise once jurors are sworn in, according to three sources. They have also asked leadership to give a recorded vote on organizing resolutions that would convene a trial, either on the Senate floor or through a select committee, according to a senior Senate GOP aide.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is joined by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) left, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as the GOP lawmakers criticize the current border security bill being negotiated, during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-trump-campaign-holds-press-conference-to-outline-viable-path-to-victory\/\" title=\"Watch Live: Trump Campaign Holds Press Conference to Outline 'Viable Path to Victory'\">news conference<\/a> at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It will be up to Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), who is presiding over the trial as president pro tem of the Senate, whether she recognizes the motions, which stretch out the proceedings by raising possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-us-house-races-heat-up-ahead-of-aug-2-primary\/\" title=\"Arizona US House Races Heat Up Ahead of Aug. 2 Primary\">rules violations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), for example, plans to accuse Democrats of violating impeachment rules if Schumer does not issue Mayorkas a summons that requests his written response to the charges. Schumer\u2019s office did not respond to an inquiry over whether he, in fact, plans to skip the summons.<\/p>\n<p>Murray is expected to allow at least some points of order, which are being negotiated at the staff leadership level, according to three sources. But she will eventually declare them \u201cdilatory\u201d and refuse to recognize the senators raising them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019ll do that right out of the gate,\u201d said Braun, \u201cbut I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll let it go that long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The swift dismissal of the trial underscores the limits of conservatives\u2019 power in a chamber Democrats control with a bare 51-49 majority. But Republicans have been discussing other ways to retaliate, including throwing up a series of legislative roadblocks unrelated to the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate operates by unanimous consent, meaning a single senator can grind floor business to a halt. That could involve objecting to floor votes, but there are other maneuvers available to members. The plan is fluid at this point, according to several GOP senators, but Republicans have discussed strategy at each of their lunches this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Schumer enacts this \u2018nuclear option\u2019 on impeachment, I think anything\u2019s on the table,\u201d said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).<\/p>\n<p>Already, Lee has taken several preemptive steps. He refused to allow committees to meet in the afternoon on Tuesday, for example, and could block Schumer\u2019s ability to transition from legislative session to executive session, a move that would prevent smooth consideration of nominees.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of such obstacles could give conservatives leverage when it comes to how many points of order they are eventually granted, but so far, Senate Democratic leadership has not provided a \u201csufficient\u201d counteroffer, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trump-reportedly-offered-attorney-sidney-powell-special-counsel-position-but-now-his-closest-aides-are-blocking-her-from-president\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Trump Reportedly Offered Attorney Sidney Powell Special Counsel Position But Now His Closest Aides Are Blocking Her from President\">senior aide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 15 votes floated matches the number given during the first impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, the aide noted.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans\u2019 strategy sessions, in particular two Senate lunches held on Tuesday, led members to ask Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to delay transmitting the articles until next week. House Republicans originally planned to walk them over on Wednesday, timed to Mayorkas\u2019s appearance on Capitol Hill for two budget hearings.<\/p>\n<p>The move would have been another dig at Mayorkas, who has defended his record as Biden\u2019s border chief, but it would have also given Schumer the opportunity to quash the trial as senators prepared to fly back to their home states for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson ultimately agreed to delay their transmission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers will be less inclined to operate under jet fume intoxication on a Monday than they would on a Thursday,\u201d Lee said at a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Senate GOP Conference is broadly supportive of the efforts to draw out the trial, viewing it as a worthwhile attempt to bring more publicity to Biden\u2019s handling of the border. But more institutionally minded Republicans have resisted the idea of grinding floor business to a halt over it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the same thing for the House. If someone in the House can tell me how their decisions produce a positive outcome, count me in. But if this is just a \u2018Hold my beer, watch this, hope something good happens\u2019 \u2014 that\u2019s not how I operate,\u201d said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), an adviser to Senate leadership.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Democrats have enough votes to dismiss an impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. However, Republicans aim to prolong and complicate the process with tactics to disrupt Senate activities. 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