Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will not face a Senate impeachment trial. On Wednesday, the Senate dismissed two articles of impeachment against him, accusing Mayorkas of violating immigration laws and lying to Congress about border security. 

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized these articles as "the least legitimate and most politicized."

"The charges brought against Secretary Mayorkas failed to meet the high, the high standard of high crimes and misdemeanors," Schumer added. 

Democrats moved to end the process, arguing that a continuation would be a harmful precedent. Republican efforts to delay or modify the dismissals were defeated along party lines.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz: "The majority leader's position is asking members of this Senate to vote on political expediency to avoid listening to arguments. The only rational way to resolve this question is actually to debate it."

Senator Schumer responded: "In our previous consent request, we gave your side a chance for debate in public, where it should be. And your side objected."

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