On Tuesday, June 24, Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) voted along with dozens of House Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in favor of beginning an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over the president’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, a decision made unilaterally by the executive branch without the consultation or approval of Congress. In his five-page measure, Green argued that Trump “disregarded the doctrine of separation of powers by usurping Congress’s power to declare war.” Unfortunately, most Democrats, 128 to be exact, disagreed that Trump should be impeached, so they voted against the measure along with every single House Republican who was present for the vote. A president should be removed from office when that president is a compulsive liar who normalizes hate speech against Black and Latino migrants, spreads propaganda about white Afrikaners fleeing a fictional “white genocide” in order to justify letting them into the country, weaponizes the National Guard and Marine troops against largely peaceful protesters, decides he only needs to uphold the Constitution when it’s convenient for him, launches a disastrous tariff war against numerous nations—including our allies, and illegally moves to defund any instittuion that doesn’t fall in line with his racist, sexist and propaganda-reliant war on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Author: Zack Linly
Published at: 2025-06-25 22:51:40
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