The Democratic-controlled Senate wrapped up the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a matter of hours Wednesday, quickly rejecting the charges brought by the Republican-led House related to his handling of border policy.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said the charges against Mayorkas failed to meet the high standards for removal. In a speech on the Senate floor, he called it “the least legitimate, least substantive and most politicized impeachment trial ever.”

Both articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas were deemed unconstitutional by the Senate on Wednesday in two party-line votes. 

The first of two articles of impeachment alleged Mayorkas engaged in the "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" regarding the southern border in his capacity as DHS secretary. The second claimed Mayorkas had breached public trust.

The Republican-led House delivered its articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate, setting the stage for the swearing in of senators as jurors in a trial on Wednesday.

But the proceedings likely won’t get very far: Democrats are expected to offer a motion to dismiss the case on the ground that it’s baseless and doesn’t rise to the constitutional standard of high crimes and misdemeanors, a view that even some Republicans share.

Republicans are upping the pressure on colleagues in the Senate ahead of next week’s impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

House managers in the case will deliver the two articles of impeachment to the upper chamber on Wednesday, nearly two months since the lower chamber impeached Mayorkas.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pushed back Sunday on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent remarks that President Joe Biden should use more executive authority to take action on the southern border.

“He couldn’t be more wrong,” Mayorkas said of the Republican governor in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”

When House Democrats, led by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), impeached then-President Donald Trump in 2019, the procedure was a spectacle of feigned seriousness for one of the most blatantly partisan acts in U.S. history.

The two impeachment counts, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, were passed on a party-line vote and established a new standard that every president can be easily impeached if the opposing party controls the House of Representatives.