Senate Democrats quashed House Republicans’ effort to force the upper chamber to put impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on trial, effectively letting the Biden administration official off the hook.
The impeachment proceedings ended in under four hours, breaking with the historic precedent of holding a trial on the rare occasion a government official has been impeached by the House. Mayorkas had been the first Cabinet official to be impeached since the Civil War.
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