{"id":2223920,"date":"2024-04-18T07:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T11:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-gop-eyes-payback-for-dismissal-of-mayorkas-impeachment-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:45:41","slug":"senate-gop-eyes-payback-for-dismissal-of-mayorkas-impeachment-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-gop-eyes-payback-for-dismissal-of-mayorkas-impeachment-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans consider retaliation for the rejection of Mayorkas impeachment trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-eyes-payback-for-dismissal-of-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=2223920&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>Senate Republicans reacted strongly to the dismissal of impeachment \u2064charges \u2064against Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by warning Democrats of potential regrets for skipping a \u2064trial. The fallout included political ramifications, with Republicans blaming Mayorkas\u200d for\u2062 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secy-psaki-fails-to-explain-why-biden-wont-travel-to-border\/\" title=\"Secy. Psaki fails to explain why Biden won\u2019t travel to border\">southern border crisis<\/a> and vowing consequences on Election Day. This unprecedented move sets a significant precedent, sparking \u200ddebates on congressional norms and\u2064 the future of impeachment \u2063proceedings.  <\/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>Republicans reacted to the dismissal of impeachment charges against Homeland Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alejandro-mayorkas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Alejandro Mayorkas<\/a> on Wednesday with a warning: Democrats would soon regret their decision to skip a trial.<\/p>\n<p>The most immediate repercussion was political. Senate Republicans have spent months blaming Mayorkas for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/border-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>crisis at the southern border<\/a> and promised that vulnerable Democrats would be reminded of their vote to declare the articles unconstitutional on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Election Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans are outraged that Democrats are welcoming this invasion. Every Democrat will pay a heavy price in November for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-panel-releases-2-articles-of-impeachment-against-mayorkas\/\" title=\"House panel issues 2 impeachment articles against Mayorkas\">willfully refusing<\/a> to end this border crisis,\u201d said Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), the No. 3 Republican in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>But the most lasting effect of Wednesday\u2019s impeachment trial, which Democrats concluded without hearing from the House impeachment managers alleging Mayorkas willfully ignored federal immigration law, was the precedent it set.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in history, the Senate cut short the impeachment proceedings of a sitting Cabinet official.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans compared the decision to then-Democratic Leader Harry Reid \u201cnuking\u201d the filibuster for judges in 2013, which his Republican successor, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), used as grounds to usher in an era of conservative jurisprudence, including the appointment of three Supreme Court justices.<\/p>\n<p>If Senate Democrats could ignore the House\u2019s articles of impeachment, then Republicans could do the same, they warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitch said he would come to regret it,\u201d Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) said of Reid. \u201cAnd I suspect the Democrats will come to regret what happened today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats say it is Republicans who smashed congressional norms on impeachment. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called the articles nakedly partisan and an abuse of what is supposed to be a solemn, judiciously used power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe felt very strongly that we had to set a precedent that impeachment should never be used to settle policy disagreements,\u201d he said in a press conference held after the trial adjourned.<\/p>\n<p>But Democrats acknowledged there could be repercussions for the dismissal. President Pro Tempore Patty Murray (D-WA), answering a parliamentary inquiry from Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on the Senate floor, conceded that precedents set that day would apply to future trials.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>In this image from video from Senate Television, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) listens as she presides over the Senate acting as a court of impeachment, during the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Washington. (Senate Television via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI understand the case they are making. I don\u2019t deny this is a different Senate process,\u201d said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT). \u201cBut the risk of normalizing what the House did is bigger than the risk of establishing a new precedent in the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) was careful not to call the warning from Republicans one of \u201cretribution,\u201d and he reasoned that Democrats could just as easily forgo a trial now that the door has been opened to it.<\/p>\n<p>But the implications for future impeachments are indisputable. Forty-five Republicans voted for an unsuccessful measure to deem the second trial of then-President Donald Trump unconstitutional in 2021. GOP senators conceivably do so for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2020-was-the-brian-stelter-of-years\/\" title=\"2020 Was the Brian Stelter of Years\">future president<\/a> if they control the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The party stands a good chance of that next year given the Senate map and has already begun to use the impeachment votes to tie swing state Democrats to the border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenate Democrats just showed voters they will do nothing to hold Joe Biden and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accountable for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-sound-alarm-on-biden-immigration-plan-will-be-catastrophic-for-our-party-for-our-country\/\" title=\"Democrats Sound Alarm On Biden Immigration Plan: \u2018Will Be Catastrophic For Our Party, For Our Country\u2019\">disastrous border policies<\/a> that caused this crisis,\u201d Tate Mitchell, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), among the most vulnerable Democrats, appears to understand the political peril of his vote. He remained publicly undecided until the moment he cast it and spent his statement explaining that vote calling on the Biden administration to do more to address the influx of immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The influence of election-year politics could be felt throughout the proceedings on Wednesday. In a moment of levity, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) moved to adjourn the impeachment trial until Nov. 6, the day after the election.<\/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>Those and other procedural motions, used to obstruct the proceedings, were not able to prevent the inevitable outcome. Schumer successfully shielded Mayorkas from more politically costly votes on his guilt or innocence.<\/p>\n<p>But they could foreshadow future obstacles for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-ends-negotiations-with-nancy-pelosi-on-coronavirus-relief\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Ends Negotiations with Nancy Pelosi on Coronavirus Relief\">majority leader<\/a>. Senate conservatives, led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), have begun to throw up legislative roadblocks to unrelated business on the Senate floor and have signaled they could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2961839\/senate-gop-plots-maximum-pain-democra-mayorkas-impeachment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>keep doing so<\/a> as a form of protest even after the trial concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans warned Democrats that skipping a trial for Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas&#8217; impeachment would have repercussions. 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