Senate GOP: Schumer Fears Mayorkas Impeachment Trial Will Imperil 2024 Election

Hallowed traditions of the upper chamber of Congress may or may not be flouted by New York’s senior congressional lawmaker.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks to the press after the Democratic weekly luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 6, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will block the impeachment trial of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for fear it will prevent President Joe Biden’s re-election and cause Democrats to lose control of the Senate, GOP lawmakers said on March 9 in a fiery news conference.

“This issue is so toxic to Senate Democrats, to House Democrats, and to Joe Biden that they do not want this to be the issue of the day,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said in the opening statement of the conference.