Speaker Johnson Announces House Will Delay Sending Mayorkas Impeachment Articles to Senate

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This comes a day before the House was scheduled to do so.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced on April 9 he will delay sending the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate by a week.

This comes a day before the House was scheduled to do so.

The articles will instead be sent to the Senate on April 15, according to Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah).

“To ensure the Senate has adequate time to perform its constitutional duty, the House will transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate next week. There is no reason whatsoever for the Senate to abdicate its responsibility to hold an impeachment trial,” Johnson spokesperson Taylor Haulsee told CNN in a statement on April 9.

It is expected that the Senate will table the trial. However, the senators, who serve as jurors during impeachment trials, have to at least be sworn in. Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray (D-Wash.) will preside. Were the trial to be tabled, it would be the first time that happened.

“We are ready to go whenever they are,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters on April 9. “We are sticking with our plan. We’re going to move this as expeditiously as possible.”

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