Texas Rep. Al Green introduced articles of impeachment against Pres. Trump on Tuesday evening, a move that could force the House to take up the controversial subject later this week over the opposition of Democratic leaders.
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening, a move that could force the House to take up the controversial subject later this week over the opposition of Democratic leaders.
Nearly 60 Democrats backed an earlier version of Green's measure in December 2017, which was successfully killed by Republican leaders at the time.The Texas Democrat said the effort was prompted by Trump's tweets over the weekend, as well as previous statements from the president about immigrants and in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville after a white supremacist rally in 2017.
Trump, Green said Tuesday, reading from his impeachment resolution,"has, by his statements, brought the high office of the president of the United States in contempt, ridicule, disgrace and disrepute." The vote, something party leaders would like to avoid, would effectively force the House Democratic caucus on the record on impeachment, including dozens of moderate freshmen who would rather discuss the party's agenda, and the unpopular and controversial topic of impeachment, before they return home for the August recess.
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