House Democrat pushes to impeach 'authoritarian' Trump

Rep Al Green D-Texas is once again calling on his colleagues in the House to impeach President Donald Trump saying the president has devolved American democracy into authoritarianism I pen this communique with a heavy heart driven by a conscience that will not allow me to ignore my well-founded strong pre-election condemnation of Donald John Trump as a threat to American democracy that has now become our reality Green wrote in a letter urging his colleagues to impeach the president Green argues that contrary to what multiple believe there does not need to be a constitutional emergency in order to impeach a president HOUSE DEMOCRAT ANNOUNCES ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST TRUMPOn Thursday he filed H Res Impeaching Donald John Trump President of the United States of high crimes and misdemeanors In the articles of impeachment Green asserts that Trump has engaged in authoritarian rule violated due process denigrated federal judges and ignored court orders including ones from the Supreme Court He also indicates that Trump condoned untruthful statements against the Court s opinion regarding the deportation of accused MS- member Kilmar Abrego Garcia TOP HOUSE DEMS SAY THEY'LL JOIN GOP TO QUASH TRUMP IMPEACHMENT EFFORT An authoritarian does not have to commit a codified statutory offense to be impeached The constitutional law that authoritarian President Trump would have Congress use to impeach a federal judge for ruling against him Article II Section of the United States Constitution is the same law that has been used and can be used to impeach him again for making his threats to democracy a reality Green wrote in the articles of impeachment He then vowed to use that law again Green is the second member of Congress to issue articles of impeachment against Trump in the president s second term Rep Shri Thanedar D-Mich also called for Trump s impeachment but he later withdrew the bill after getting backlash from party leadership Rep Jerry Nadler D-N Y reportedly called the bill idiotic according to Axios However Nadler was previously a sponsor of the measure In his letter Green made it clear that he was not afraid to stand alone against Trump I encourage all members to vote with their conscience As for me I stand where I have stood on impeachment which is a question of conscience even when the odds are against me it is better for me to stand alone than not stand at all it won t be the first time Green wrote Green has never been silent about his opposition to Trump even making multiple attempts to impeach the president during his first term In March he was removed from Trump s address to a joint session of Congress after he heckled the president He was eventually censured for the protest