Based Mike Lee Perfectly Explains Absurdity of Schumer’s Argument Against Mayorkas Impeachment Proceeding

By Sister Toldjah | 6:12 PM on April 17, 2024

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As RedState reported earlier, cowardly Democrats in the Senate led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) shot down the possibility of an impeachment trial for embattled Dept. of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas and in the process nuked two centuries of Senate precedent.

"Never before in the history of our republic has the Senate dismissed or tabled articles of impeachment when the impeached individual was alive and had not resigned," Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) declared in opposition to Schumer's machinations while further noting that he would "not assist Sen. Schumer in setting our Constitution ablaze and bulldozing 200 years of precedent."

Also rising to express his staunch opposition to Schumer's shenanigans was Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who lived up to the "Based" part of his personal Twitter/X handle by making the following impassioned observations about Schumer's bizarre point of order on Article II of the impeachment articles against Mayorkas even as Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), who was presiding over the Senate, was trying to shut him up:

Madam President, as wrong as the Majority Leader was moments ago in making this particular point of order as to Article I of the impeachment articles, Article I, remember, refers to the willful defiance by Sec. Mayorkas of the law.
As wrong as he was in making that as to Article I, and he was very wrong for the reasons articulated moments ago by the Senator from Texas, he is even more wrong - far more so - with respect to Article II, because Article II accuses him of knowingly making false statements.
This is a violation of 18 USC Section 1001, a felony offense. If this is not a high crime and misdemeanor, what is? If this is not impeachable, what is? What precedent will we be setting? We need to address this, we need to discuss it in closed session.
For that reason, Madam President, I move that the Senate proceed with closed session to allow for deliberation on this very consequential point of order that he's just made that violates hundreds of years of Anglo-American legal precedent and understanding, on the question required by impeachment rule 24.

Watch:

If this is not a high crime and misdemeanor, what is?

If this is not impeachable, what is? pic.twitter.com/d0mqJ0VEWg
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) April 17, 2024

Later, Lee insinuated this could very well come back to bite Democrats one day soon.

"We will remember this, next time Democrats want to remove someone from office," he warned on the Twitter machine, perhaps hinting at what may happen if Donald Trump defeats Joe Biden in November and Democrats once again set about trying to impeach him in 2025.

As my colleague Bonchie pointed out earlier, "Like the elimination of the filibuster for judicial nominees, Democrats have once again flown too close to the sun in their naked thirst for power."

It's like they just can't help themselves, bless their hearts.