House to send DHS Secretary Mayorkas' impeachment to Senate on April 10, Speaker Mike Johnson says
WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., notified Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N
WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., notified Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Thursday that the House will send impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the upper chamber on April 10.
Johnson and 11 GOP-appointed impeachment managers said in a letter to Schumer that they will present the “duly passed articles of impeachment” that the House passed against Mayorkas when the Senate will be back in session.
“We urge you to schedule a trial of the matter expeditiously,” the letter to Schumer said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson in Washington, D.C., on March 20.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images fileSchumer's office said in a statement that the senators would be sworn in as jurors for the trial on April 11, the day after they will receive the articles.
“As we have said previously, after the House impeachment managers present the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Senators will be sworn in as jurors in the trial the next day,” Schumer’s office said. “Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray will preside.”
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