Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla) has written to Vice President Kamala Harris inviting her to preside over the Senate trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whom the House of Representatives impeached for having “willfully and systematically refused to comply with Federal immigration laws” and “breached the public trust.”
Scott noted that while Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants President Pro Tempore Patty Murray to preside over the Cuba-born Homeland Security Secretarty’s trial, it would be constitutionally proper for Harris to do so in her official role as President of the Senate.
Scott further noted that Joe Biden appointed Harris as his “border czar” in 2021, so she should be “keenly interested in learning whether a high-ranking member of your administration” is one of the “root causes” of the border crisis she promised to tackle.
“Our states and cities face an ongoing and widespread crisis due to the flood of illegal immigrants streaming across our southern and northern borders and moving freely within the interior of the homeland. As the President of the Senate, you are the appropriate constitutional presiding officer to oversee the impeachment trial,” Scott concluded.
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