Right-wing senators call on McConnell to begin doomed Mayorkas impeachment effort

A group of Trump loyalists in the US Senate released a joint letter calling on their party’s leadership to demand the impeachment trial of Joe Biden’s DHS secretary to begin “immediately.”

The collection of 13 senators included right-wing stalwarts such as Mike Lee, Rick Scott, Marsha Blackburn and Tommy Tuberville. It did not list any signatures from senators with close ties to the leadership. Just one swing-state senator was on the list: Texas’s Ted Cruz, who has built a storied reputation as a conservative gadfly.

In the letter, the conservatives denounced the reported plans of Democrats to table the articles of impeachment without bringing Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to trial in the Senate. They urged their counterparts in leadership to resist this effort and demand a full trial.

“This is an action rarely contemplated and never taken by the US Senate in the history of our Republic,” the lawmakers wrote.

“We call on you to join us in our efforts to jettison this approach by Democrats to shirk their Constitutional duty, ensure that the Senate conducts a proper trial and that every Senator, Republican and Democrat, adjudicates this matter when the Senate returns,” their letter continued.

It was a revealing letter in more ways than one. In general, the low number of signatures suggests a lack of enthusiasm among other members of the Senate Republican caucus regarding the impending trial of Mr Mayorkas. Republicans are virtually guaranteed to lose the vote to remove Mr Mayorkas from office, and the final vote will likely be yet another instance of the GOP caucus splitting in the face of unified Democratic opposition.

But the letter also suggested another reality of the Trump-loyalist contingents in the House and Senate;