Alaska’s congressional delegation spoke to visiting students outside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan were demonstrating the hand signals they use to vote in the Senate chamber. Their gestures happen to reflect how they feel about a Senate trial on the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The message is actually one that Murkowski agrees with: The Biden administration has mishandled the border crisis.But once the Senate starts an impeachment trial, the rules require that it drop everything else, and Murkowski said that means less time on other priorities, like budget bills and national security legislation.
Defenders of Mayorkas, and some constitutional scholars say this is a policy dispute, not an impeachable offense. Murkowski said the job of the Senate would be to decide if Mayorkas’s actions amount to “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Sen. Dan Sullivan, on the other hand, called on Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer to hold a full trial for Mayorkas.A Senate trial would start early next week. If there is one. Democrats are hoping to ditch the impeachment quickly, maybe with a motion to table or to dismiss. Murkowski said she she needs to see the specifics before she can say how she’d vote.
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