Scott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — Senators will open the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday afternoon, but it’s expected to look nothing like the full-blown Senate trials Donald Trump faced in 2020 and 2021. Senate Democrats, led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, of New York, are expected to quickly move to dismiss or table the two impeachment articles, which would require only a simple majority vote.
“What I hope happens is that there will be an opportunity at least for some discussion once we are sworn in, and how long that is and what that entails is yet to be determined, but I would rather not go straight from swearing everybody in to, boom, we’re going to move to table,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who is skeptical of the impeachment push. “At a bare minimum you have to have some process here,” she said, “and if you just move to table ...
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