Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is about to get one of her highest-profile roles in Congress yet as lawmakers move forward with the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The House will next appoint its impeachment managers, who will act as prosecutors to plead their case to the Senate. It’s not yet determined who will be on that committee, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is poised to name 11 lawmakers as impeachment managers, according to a bill released last week. 

Among that list of names is Greene, who has spearheaded the effort to impeach Mayorkas over the last year. The list also includes Reps. Mark Green (R-TN), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Ben Cline (R-VA), Michael Guest (R-MS), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Austin Pfulger (R-TX), Harriet Hageman (R-WY), and Laurel Lee (R-FL). 

Impeachment managers are handpicked by the speaker, and the high-profile roles can often catapult lawmakers into the spotlight. Previous notable managers include members such as Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), now-Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who has relied on much of that experience for his current Senate bid in California.

The House narrowly voted to impeach Mayorkas in a 214-213 vote, making him the first sitting Cabinet official to be impeached in U.S. history. The matter is now set to be transferred to the Senate for an impeachment trial, during which the upper chamber will determine whether to convict or acquit. 

Under Congress rules, the Senate is mandated to begin its trial after the House delivers the articles of impeachment. In this case, there are two being levied against Mayorkas: willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and a breach of the public trust.

But some Democratic leaders in the Senate have indicated plans to dismiss Mayorkas’s trial as quickly as possible, most likely ending with his acquittal. That has prompted some criticism from House Republicans who have maintained Democrats in the upper chamber should take the charges seriously. 

“People have asked, you know, what’s the point of impeaching the secretary if the Senate is just going to discard it? I don’t know what the Senate is going to do. I gave up predicting what the Senate might do. But I will tell you this,” said Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA). “If they ignore this and just throw it in the trash can without taking it as seriously as the American people do, then there will be accountability and consequences to that action. So it’s on the Senate.”

There are several avenues Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) could take to dismiss the trial, including a vote to throw out the charges altogether. Schumer could also refer the matter to a special committee or raise a point of special order to quash the effort to convict. 

Any one of those options is likely to elicit backlash from House Republicans as they attempt to tie Democrats to Mayorkas amid a record-high number of illegal immigrants entering the country through the southern border under his leadership in the Biden administration. 

“If the senators want to dismiss impeachment, they need to consider their grounds for doing so. Are they claiming that over 10 million people invading our country, 300 fentanyl deaths every single day, terrorists in our country, 2 million gotaways — are they saying that those are Democrat policies?” Greene said. “Or are they willing to say that to look at it and consider a trial of Alejandro Mayorkas and say that this is his fault? It’s one or the other. Either they’re going to own that and tell the American people, ‘No, these are our policies,’ or they’re willing to do a trial in the Senate.”

Although a Senate trial is likely to end in Mayorkas’s acquittal, Republicans in the House say they still believe the effort is worthwhile to hold the Biden administration official accountable. 

“They may move to dismiss, who knows? But we’ve got to be ready to go,” said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ). “I believe it’s a constitutional obligation and, quite frankly, a moral obligation because of … what Secretary Mayorkas has done to imperil this nation, and it’s been willful.”

The time frame is not entirely clear for how quickly the Mayorkas trial could get underway in the Senate, but Schumer indicated it would begin before the end of the month. A conviction would require a two-thirds majority vote, and there is no option for appeal.

The Senate will enter its state work period, or recess, from Wednesday until Feb. 23, according to the upper chamber’s schedule. Lawmakers are then expected to return on Feb. 26.

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After that, House impeachment managers are expected to deliver the articles of impeachment, and a trial would begin the next day, according to Schumer. 

Impeachment rules require the Senate to convene at noon six days a week for the trial, but the Senate majority can alter the schedule. When the Senate is acting as a court of impeachment, the chamber cannot take up legislative or executive business.