Rep. Al Green files Articles of Impeachment against Pres. Trump

By Lauren Burke
BlackPressUSA

U.S. Rep. Al Green, who was famously escorted out of congressional chambers after shouting in protest during Trump’s joint address to Congress in March, has filed articles of impeachment against the 47th president.

H. Res. 415, filed on May 19, states in part, that President Trump is “unfit to represent the American values of decency and morality, respectability and civility, honesty, and propriety, reputability, and integrity, is unfit to defend the ideals that have made America great, is unfit to defend liberty and justice for all as extolled in the Pledge of Allegiance, is unfit to defend the American ideal of all persons being created equal as exalted in the Declaration of Independence, is unfit to ensure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare and to ensure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity as lauded in the preamble to the United States Constitution, is unfit to protect government of the people…”

The 77-year-old congressman who has served in Congress since 2005 told Newsweek that he is moving on impeachment now before “tanks are rolling down the street.”

The White House seemed to characterize Rep. Green’s effort to impeach the president as a political ploy.

“This week, Democrats ousted their DNC ‘leader,’ opposed the largest tax cut in history, and were exposed for actively covering up Joe Biden’s four-year cognitive decline. Now, Democrats have turned their sights to threatening impeachment. We are witnessing the collapse of the Democrat Party before our eyes. Not a single one of these efforts will help the American people. The contrast could not be more clear: President Trump is fighting for historic tax relief for the American people, Democrats are fighting themselves,” said White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly in a written statement.

Several decisions and legal interpretations by the Trump administration are currently being stymied in federal court. On May 15, the U.S. Supreme Court debated the issue of birthright citizenship after a legal challenge on the issue by the White House.

During that legal debate, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson challenged Trump’s solicitor general Dean John Sauer by saying, “Your argument seems to turn our justice system into a catch-me-if-you-can kind of regime … where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”

Rep. Green’s impeachment resolution also focused on the tendency of the White House to ignore judicial orders. A notable example was the deportation case of Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia was deported to a prison in El Salvador by federal officials on March 15, 2025.

“The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders – especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it. To permit such officials to freely ‘annul the judgments of the courts of the United States’ would not just ‘destroy the rights acquired under those judgments’; it would make a solemn mockery’ of ‘the constitution itself,’” said federal judge James Boasberg in an April ruling.

President Trump is the only President who has been impeached twice by the U.S. House of Representatives.

President Trump was impeached on December 18, 2019, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. He was then impeached a second time on January 13, 2021, for “Incitement of insurrection” in the wake of the violent January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump’s supporters.

It was During President Trump ‘State of the Union Speech’ on March 4 that Congressman Green stood up and yelled to the president, “You have no mandate.”

Following the incident, Republicans who control the U.S. House considered sanctioning Rep. Green, but they did not complete an action against him.

Whether Rep. Green can force a vote in the U.S. House on impeachment remains an unknown issue.

This article originally published in the May 26, 2025 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.