Senate convenes Mayorkas impeachment trial [Video]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer quickly moved on Wednesday to end the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border, calling for separate votes to dismiss two articles of impeachment.Watch a livestream of the hearing in the video player above.If the Senate votes to dismiss the articles, the trial will be over before arguments begin. Schumer said the House Republicans’ case fails to meet “the high standard of high crimes and misdemeanors” and could set a dangerous precedent.“For the sake of the Senate’s integrity and to protect impeachment for those rare cases we truly need it, senators should dismiss today’s charges,” said Schumer, D-N.Y.The House narrowly voted in February to impeach Mayorkas for his handling of the border, arguing in the two articles that he “willfully and systematically” refused to enforce immigration laws. House impeachment managers delivered the charges to the Senate on …