The case has been cancelled, by 51 votes - those of the Democratic group - compared to 49 of the Republican group. The polarization that the case aroused was evident in the statements of the representatives of the respective parties.
The first in 150 years against a member of the US government who was not the president. The Senate received the charges with which the House had accused the person responsible for US immigration policy on Tuesday and, 24 hours later, determined that the accusation was unconstitutional. The second charge was similarly defeated. The third vote approved ending the trial. "It is an unfortunate precedent. It implies that the Senate can, in practice, decide whether or not a person committed the crimes of which he was accused," said Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican minority.