Questions Remain About How Schumer Will Handle Mayorkas Impeachment

High drama could ensue after 11 House managers inform the upper chamber of two counts against the Homeland Security chief.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) departs from the Senate Chambers in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on March 14, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Senate rules governing impeachment trials specify the day and time that such a procedure is to begin, but intense speculation continues behind the scenes about what Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) may do after April 10.

That’s the day that 11 House impeachment managers will formally present to the Senate two counts of impeachment approved on Feb. 13 by the lower chamber of Congress against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.