CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), joined 42 of her Senate Republican colleagues in sending a letter – led by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) – to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) calling on the Senate to fulfill its constitutional duty by holding a trial to consider the impeachment of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
“The House of Representatives has considered this evidence and impeached Secretary Mayorkas. Our constitutional duty requires the Senate to hold a trial. In every previous congressional impeachment of the past 227 years, Congress has been faithful to the process set out by the framers… Never before has the Senate abandoned this duty, even when certain members believed the basis for impeachment was tenuous at best,” the senators wrote.
“In the face of the disaster that mounts daily at our southern border, and in communities across America, the House of Representatives has formally accused Alejandro Mayorkas of demeaning his office. The American people deserve to hear the evidence through a Senate trial in the Court of Impeachment,” the senators continued.
Full text of the letter is available here.
Senator Capito, who also serves on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee and as the vice chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, led a number of her Republican colleagues in a series of speeches on the Senate floor and spoke about this during the weekly Senate Republican leadership press conference. Earlier this week, Senator Capito penned an op-ed for the Washington Examiner calling for a full impeachment trial of Secretary Mayorkas. You can read the op-ed here.
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