I almost missed the latest drama! Democrat CongressCritter Al Green (TX-18) got a vote on his articles of impeachment against Donald Trump!
Fun fact: Al is only slightly younger than Trump, 78 years young. This is not the his first rodeo, impeachment-wise. It seems to be his periodic legislative hobby. A Newsweek article from back in May detailed a different attempt.
[Green] cited the clash between the administration and U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who last month said he found "probable cause" to hold the administration in contempt of court, as just one such example of the administration flouting judicial authority, and told Newsweek that now is the time to act before the president's use of power grows too flagrant.
"You don't wait until tanks are rolling down the streets of American cities," Green said during an interview. "It's too late then. You don't wait until you have what everybody will recognize as a constitutional crisis, because that can be the forerunner to tanks moving down the streets of American cities.
"So, we have this unique opportunity to use impeachment as a deterrent to stop him and prevent what could become more than we have seen in this country in terms of power emanating from a presidency that is out of control," Green said.
His more recent effort had two articles therein: (1) Trump's "Calling for the Execution of Members of Congress; (2) Trump's attempt to "Intimidate Federal Judges in Violation of the Separation of Powers and Independence of the Judiciary". The second one seems kind of weak to me, but …
CongressCritter Al, by the way, identified himself at the top of his article submission:
Al Green,
Member of Congress
Scion of the Enslaved Africans –
Sacrificed to Make America Great
Progenitor of August and August 20th as
Slavery Remembrance Month and Day
OK, then.
Al watched his articles get tabled last Thursday. Axios reports: Infuriated Democrats help GOP quash another Trump impeachment vote.
Nearly two dozen House Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday to block one of their own members from forcing a vote to impeach President Trump.
You can see how your CongressCritter voted here. Among the 23 Democrats voting with all Republicans to kill the effort was Maggie Goodlander (NH-02). My own Chris Pappas (NH-01) went with the 47 members voting "Present". Not exactly a profile in courage there, Chris.
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