Senate Republicans Point to 2 Key Issues in Mayorkas Impeachment

Conservative Republicans contend Democrats will gut the Senate’s constitutional power by dismissing the homeland security chief’s day of reckoning.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks on the National Security Supplemental Bill during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 13, 2024. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Senate Republicans have said that if Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) tables or dismisses impeachment charges against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, it will ravage the upper chamber’s already declining authority by “nuking the Constitution.”

That fear is one of two at the heart of the GOP lawmakers’ intensive nearly week-long push to pressure Mr. Schumer into not interfering with what would be only the second Senate impeachment trial of a presidential Cabinet member in U.S. history.