Fresh off the sound defeat of the impeachment effort brought by Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI), which was launched over the deportation of an illegal alien with suspected ties to MS-13 and human traffickers, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) is once again calling on his colleagues to impeach the “authoritarian” president.
“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 — who is no stranger to failed impeachment efforts — went so far as to argue that there does not need to be a constitutional crisis in order to impeach a president.
On Thursday, the Democrat lawmaker formally filed H. Res. 415, “Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.”
In the impeachment articles, Green claims that Trump has engaged in “authoritarian” rule and ignored court orders. He also claims that Trump condoned “untruthful statements” against the Court’s opinion regarding the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran illegal alien with