Democrats appear to have the votes needed to dismiss an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, but Republicans plan to make that dismissal as painful as possible with a series of maneuvers designed to slow down business on the Senate floor.
, but Republicans plan to make that dismissal as painful as possible with a series of maneuvers designed to slow down business on theagainst 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.
However, Senate conservatives are weighing what one Senate GOP staffer called a “death by a million paper cuts” approach to retaliation that delays the proceedings or even slows floor business in the weeks that follow. It will be up to Sen. Patty Murray , 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 rules violations.
The swift dismissal of the trial underscores the limits of conservatives’ 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.
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