House Speaker Mike Johnson Announces House Will Delay Sending Articles of Impeachment to Senate

Published on April 9, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced on April 9 he will delay sending the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate by a week. This comes a day before the House was scheduled to do so. The articles will instead be sent to the Senate on April 15, according to Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah). “To ensure the Senate has adequate time to perform its constitutional duty, the House will transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate next week. There is no reason whatsoever for the Senate to abdicate its responsibility to hold an impeachment trial,” Johnson spokesperson Taylor Haulsee told CNN in a statement on April 9....