Republicans controlled the Senate during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial in 2020. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., allowed a full Senate trial in public view even though he would vote that Trump wasn’t guilty of the House’s charges.
Today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., faces a similar choice with the House’s impeachment Feb. 13 of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Schumer could bury the matter in committee, dismiss the two articles of impeachment by a majority vote, or hold a Senate trial in public as McConnell did with Trump’s first impeachment.
“Democrats will do anything to avoid having to defend Mayorkas’ record, so Chuck Schumer is trying to break over 200 years of Senate precedent by tabling the impeachment trial and denying the American people the chance to hear the facts…
