House Delays Sending Mayorkas Impeachment Trial Articles to Senate Amid Pushback
• Speaker Mike Johnson delayed sending impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas to give Senate Republicans more time to build support for a full trial
• House Republicans impeached Mayorkas in February for his handling of the southern border, but delayed sending articles while finishing government funding bills
• Senate Majority Leader Schumer wants to deal with the charges quickly and calls the impeachment push a "sham"
• Some Republican senators say the charges don't meet the constitutional grounds for impeachment and are just policy disagreements
• Prior cabinet official impeachments are rare - only Secretary of War William Belknap was impeached in 1876 for kickback payments, but not convicted