Rep. Al Green files articles of impeachment against Trump again

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump on Monday, reviving his push to remove the president from office as Democrats debate how aggressively to confront Trump ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Green’s resolution is aimed at impeaching Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors “committed in violation of the president’s mandated oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the United States Constitution.” It accuses Trump of operating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “as his vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary police forces.”

Democrats have urged the White House to reform its immigration enforcement tactics after the deaths of U.S. citizens and immigrants by ICE and Border Patrol officials. Among the most prominent cases was the death of Renee Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and Minneapolis resident, who was shot by an immigration officer in January.

Weeks later, Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and intensive care nurse, in Minneapolis. More recently, an ICE officer fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant, in Houston.

“President Trump has used ICE and CBP to suppress the First Amendment rights to free speech and a free press; violate the Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protections against unlawful searches and excessive force; and defy the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process and equal protection by allowing and encouraging racially targeted 7 arrests, unjustified detentions, and unjustified killings,” the resolution notes.

Green has previously introduced articles of impeachment against Trump, but his efforts have failed to garner the support needed to advance in the House. Green, for instance, filed an article of impeachment against Trump in June 2025, accusing the president of failing to notify or seek authorization from Congress before the U.S. launched strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites that summer.

The Texas lawmaker forced a vote on the article of impeachment. The measure was scuttled in a lopsided vote, 344-79, which saw most Democrats — including all the top Democratic leaders — siding with Republicans to put it to bed.

And in the first year of Trump’s first term, Green was the first Democrat to force impeachment articles to the floor — long before Democratic leaders were on board — accusing Trump of stirring racial tensions in the wake of the 2017 march of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.

Green was escorted out of the chamber during Trump’s State of the Union address in February after he held up a sign that read, “BLACK PEOPLE AREN’T APES,” as Trump entered. The sign referred to a since-deleted, AI-generated clip Trump had posted depicting former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.

Green lost the Democratic primary runoff for Texas’s 18th Congressional District to Rep. Christian Menefee (D-Texas) in May.

Mike Lillis and Sarah Fortinsky contributed.