the first was that mayorkas failed to enforce the laws of the southern border, which simply wasn t true. in fact, under secretary mayorkas, there have been more deportations, returns, and explosions than there were during the entire trump administration. republicans second charge was that secretary mayorkas had lied to congress when he said that the border was under control which is exactly what it sounds like. an argument about the semantics of what the word control means, and very clearly not a high crime or misdemeanor. so these were not real charges. but republicans decided to move forward with them anyway. yesterday, house republicans brought there to sham impeachment articles to the senate and today, senate democrats killed both of them. after a few hours of procedural wrinkling, a majority of senators voted for neither of the two articles of impeachment
republicans second charge was that secretary mayorkas had lied to congress when he said that the border was under control, which is exactly what it sounds like. an argument about the semantics of what the word control means, and very clearly not a high crime or misdemeanor. so these were not real charges. but republicans decided to move forward with them anyway. yesterday, house republicans brought their two sham impeachment articles to the senate, and today, senate democrats killed both of them. after a few hours of procedural wrangling, a majority of senators voted that neither of the two articles of impeachment was a high crime or a misdemeanor, and therefore, the articles were unconstitutional. and that was it. here was senate minority leader mitch mcconnell just after that vote. madam president, we ve set a very unfortunate precedent here. this means that the senate can