Republican-led efforts to oust Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met an anticlimactic but predictable fate Wednesday as the Senate swiftly sidelined charges against him.

The Senate, after a few hours of deliberation, voted mostly on party lines to toss the two impeachment articles against Mayorkas, rejecting GOP pressure to conduct a full trial that would cast a harsh light on the Biden administration’s border policies ahead of the presidential election.

The historic campaign against Mayorkas — the first Cabinet secretary impeached in almost 150 years — was always expected to hit a dead end in the Senate. Democrats and a few Republicans there have long panned the effort as a political stunt, making it virtually certain Mayorkas wouldn’t be removed from office.

House Republicans impeached Mayorkas in February on the narrowest possible margin, with three GOP defectors.

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