Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is calling on the Senate to follow constitutional process after a vote on whether to proceed with an impeachment trial for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was tabled.
House Republicans impeached Mr. Mayorkas over several issues—chief among them being border security, as an unprecedented number of illegal immigrants have been crossing the southern border. The Senate is responsible for holding impeachment trials, which can result in a guilty charge or acquittal.
In a Feb. 18 interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Mr. Cruz claimed that suspending consideration of the House’s pending articles of impeachment has never happened in the entire history of the United States.
“In over 200 years of our nation’s history, the Senate has never once tabled articles of impeachment; that has never happened,” he said.
“Every single time, the Senate has voted on either guilt or innocence, or the House has withdrawn the impeachment.”
According to USAGov, an official U.S. federal government web portal, the House has initiated impeachment proceedings more than 60 times, with only 21 resulting in impeachments. This includes three presidents, one cabinet secretary, and one senator. So far, only eight people facing impeachment have been found guilty by the Senate and removed from office; all were federal judges.
Mr. Cruz says this is the time for Republican leadership in the Senate to push the issue so the constitutional process for impeachment is followed correctly. Once taken up by the Senate, it will take a two-thirds vote from the Senate to convict Mr. Mayorkas. He could face removal from office and disqualification from holding public offices in the future if found guilty.
“If Republican leadership in the Senate doesn’t like the criticism, here’s an opportunity to demonstrate some backbone,” Mr. Cruz said.
“They could stand up and say, ‘Let’s have a trial.’ They could stand up and say, ‘You cannot refuse to even follow the constitutional process for impeachment; you can’t dodge responsibility; that’s what Schumer and the Democrats want to do,” he added.
Cruz Says Target on His Back in Upcoming Election
Two term incumbent Sen. Cruz is seeking a third term in office in the 2024 election on Nov. 5. But according to him, it will be an uphill battle because he has a target on his back.
“My race here in Texas is a battleground race; the Democrats are spending over $100 million, and George Soros is pouring millions into the state of Texas,” he said.
“In my last race, I won by less than three points because I’m the Democrat’s top target,” he added.
Overall though, Sen. Cruz believes the 2024 election cycle will be a significant positive for Republicans across the board, with a new president and a majority in the House and Senate.
“I believe November is going to be a very good election; I think we are going to see Donald Trump re-elected president of the United States,” he said.
“I think we are going to see Republicans keep and grow our majority in the House, and critically, I think we are going to win the United States Senate.”
“While America Burns” the U.S. treasonous woke Democrat Party and their Democrat RINOs have created our economic inflation, created open borders, imported over 10 Million homeless unvetted illegal immigrants, have treated their illegal immigrants better than U.S. citizens, allowed enough fentanyl to me smuggled into the U.S. by the Mexican drug cartel to kill every person in the U.S. 5 times over, are giving NOT loaning Hundreds of BILLIONS of U.S. taxpayers money to foreign countries, WHILE THE U.S.A. BURNS . This has all happened since 2020 when the treasonous, lying, destructive, woke, socialist Democrat Party manipulated the 2020 presidential election and put the treasonous, corrupt, demented, puppet president Joe B. OBiden in the White House along with the equally useless puppet Kamala Harris as VP as a backup puppet.
ITS NOT a loan, when we expect Ukraine to NEVER EVER PAY IT back.
Only a guilty person would run from a trial that he should be confident in winning and proving his innocence beyond a doubt,,, unless he is just a “guilty as sin” self-known criminal coward, unfit to lead a strong American people whom Mayorkas perceives as weak, indoctrinated, sub-servient and mentally malleable to his own best interests. Mayorkas, the Biden Butt kissing Mayor of the Judas kiss, that leads a nation directly to a painful unearned alien crucifixion, in death by 2-3million cuts. When it comes to national betrayal in the aid and comfort of our alien enemies, Mayorkas really knows how to nail it,,,like to the cross, or in his case, the double cross. Schumer just plays the part of the Senatorial High Priest Caiaphas, while Joe fills in, as Emperor Tiberius, with his son Hunter’s Isle of Capri orgies as the Caligula heir apparent. Can the fall of the American empire be far behind?,,,when Atilla and the Huns are not only at the gates, but being Biden waved in by the millions.
It may indeed that November is going to be a very good election, only if every mail-in ballot must be accompanied by a valid ID or tossed out completely, or the rules changed to – no show (With Proper ID), no vote. Until the Democrat ballot harvesting and reassignment to dead people or illegal aliens is changed, Republicans will continue to walk the line, like a circus tightrope walker across Niagara falls.
To the dems IF YOU are a fellow dem, you are innocent of all charges, no matter HOW MUCH EVIDENCE there is.
IF you’re a republican, you are guilty, no matter HOW LITTLE EVIDENCE there is.
Is Schumer afraid some democrats will vote to convict?
They all SHOULD vote to convict, but most if not all are corrupt and have turned into Marxists.
AND there’s also the cowardly RINOS In the senate to worry about.