Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) (cried) Democrats in the upper chamber for dismissing two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week, claiming they tossed more than two centuries of “precedent” in the Senate.

“Yesterday, Chuck Schumer threw over two centuries of precedent in the United States Senate out of the window,” Cruz wrote in a post Thursday on the social platform X. “He stripped the Senate of the right to hold an impeachment trial. Democrats do not care about the Constitution or the rule of law.” (Impeaching Cabinet members because you disagree with a President's policy is not a high crime. But Fled knows that.)

The Democratic-majority Senate killed two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas on Wednesday, voting along mostly party lines 51-49 to do so just a few hours into proceedings. The vote marked the first time in 225 years the Senate voted to immediately dismiss the impeachment charges approved by the House instead of holding a floor trial or referring the matter to a special committee for review.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) argued a trial was not needed because the House sent over “the least legitimate, least substantive and most politicized impeachment trial ever in the history of the United States.”

Cruz attempted to block Schumer’s move to dismiss the charges by offering a motion to send the Senate into a private session to debate the constitutionality of the impeachment, but Democrats voted it down.

Courtesy the Hill

Reports Cruz flew immediately to Cancun, have not been verified.