A Political Impeachment?

 For Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democrat Senate majority leader, the nation's issues brought before the Senate are first and foremost political "Nails" rather than weighty ones demanding considered actions in the national interest - especially in this election year.

The House delivered articles of impeachment and announced in the well of the Senate two articles, charging Mayorkas with "Willfully subverting immigration laws by refusing to carry out enforcement laws," while "Breaching the public trust by lying to and obstructing Congress." The House was right to expect that the Senate would carry out its moral and constitutional duty to convene a trial to, at minimum, deliberate over the issues brought before it.

Why? The House impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas marked only the second time in U.S. history a seated Cabinet secretary would be tarred with that ignominy.

Nor did he want Senate Democrats campaigning for election this fall having to explain why they voted against impeachment while the border situation simmers as voters' most important national issue.

"A Senate impeachment trial would have shed further light on what the Biden administration has allowed to occur at our nation's southern border. As many as 10 million people have been reported illegally entering the U.S. since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, with nearly 1.6 million known" gotaways" and hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens now granted parole into the country every month.

Given the extraordinary consequences of unsecured borders, remarkably, on more than one occasion in oath-sworn testimony before Congress, secretary of Homeland "Security" Mayorkas vocally testified that the "Borders are secure." As Americans, why was all this not enough to prompt even one Democrat senator to break ranks and demand that an impeachment trial of Secretary Mayorkas proceed?

Secretary Mayorkas's trial needed to go forward, if for no other reason than to get an under-oath answer to the lead question that begs for an answer: "Secretary Mayorkas, what orders did you receive from President Biden regarding border security and immigration?" The duty and responsibility of the Senate to conduct an impeachment trial was not about politics, but is - and very much should be - a bipartisan issue of valid and grave national security concern for all American citizens.

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