Republicans reacted to the dismissal of impeachment charges against Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday with a warning: Democrats would soon regret their decision to skip a trial. The most immediate repercussion was political.
“Americans are outraged that Democrats are welcoming this invasion. Every Democrat will pay a heavy price in November for willfully refusing to end this border crisis,” said Sen. John Barrasso , the No. 3 Republican in the Senate.
Republicans compared the decision to then-Democratic Leader Harry Reid “nuking” the filibuster for judges in 2013, which his Republican successor, Sen. Mitch McConnell , used as grounds to usher in an era of conservative jurisprudence, including the appointment of three Supreme Court justices. Democrats say it is Republicans who smashed congressional norms on impeachment. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the articles nakedly partisan and an abuse of what is supposed to be a solemn, judiciously used power.
In this image from video from Senate Television, Sen. Patty Murray 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.
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 future president if they control the chamber.
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