{"id":2649272,"date":"2026-08-25T11:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lame-duck-house-democrat-files-articles-of-impeachment-against-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:46:41","slug":"lame-duck-house-democrat-files-articles-of-impeachment-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lame-duck-house-democrat-files-articles-of-impeachment-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Lame-Duck House Democrat Files Articles of Impeachment Against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flame-duck-house-democrat-files-articles-of-impeachment-against-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2649272&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses Texas Democratic Representative Al Green&#8217;s repeated attempts to impeach President Donald Trump, highlighting that Green has filed articles of impeachment multiple times, most recently on grounds related to alleged abuses by ICE and CBP. Despite political theater and lack of ample support,green&#8217;s efforts are seen as publicity stunts,and he has faced criticism for his behavior,including interruptions during presidential speeches and protests such as holding up offensive signs. Green lost his congressional seat due to redistricting and primary defeat, ending his legislative career.The piece portrays Green&#8217;s impeachment campaigns as futile and symbolic,emphasizing his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-marcus-the-case-for-kevin-mccarthy-and-for-his-adversaries\/\" title=\"David Marcus: The Case For Kevin McCarthy\u2013 And For His Adversaries\">long-standing tendency<\/a> to seek attention rather than effect change.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green may be losing his seat in the House of Representatives, but he\u2019s going out in exactly the same way he was when he was a congressman from a safe blue seat: as an embarrassment who would have been improved upon, governance-wise, by the singer Al Green.<\/p>\n<p>In a move that has shocked no one that hasn\u2019t been in a medically induced coma since Jan. 20, 2017, Green filed \u2014 again \u2014 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump that were both quixotic and groundless.<\/p>\n<p>This time, as if Green ever needs a reason, it\u2019s because Trump has been, to use the exact language from Green\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/algreen.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/algreen-evo.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/h.res_.1486-rep-al-green-articles-of-impeachment-final-with-signature.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">articles of impeachment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u2026 abusing the powers of the presidency by operating United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as his vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary police forces, transgressing with anonymity and secrecy, assaulting people, committing and covering up unjustified killings of civilians (including Ren\u00e9e Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebasti\u00e1n Dur\u00e1n Guerrero) with impunity (acting as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner), terrorizing communities, and brazenly and wantonly devolving the United States democratic republic into an authoritarian regime, where unjustified killings and coverups by ICE and CBP are normalized.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This impeachment goes on for 21 more pages, which I doubt anyone (Green included) will bother to read.<\/p>\n<p>This time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/house-democrats-caused-spectacle-al-green-censure-process-now-face-punishment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green<\/a> didn\u2019t even bother attaching a pre-written quote to his <em>pro forma<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/algreen.house.gov\/rep-al-green-files-articles-impeachment-against-president-donald-john-trump-high-crimes-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> about the impeachment articles, simply saying that you could reach him at his office in Washington, D.C., or at his Houston district. If anyone does, his staffers will probably consider it a shock, too.<\/p>\n<p>T.S. Eliot famously ended his poem \u201cThe Hollow Men\u201d with the stanza \u201cThis is the way the world ends \/ This is the way the world ends \/ This is the way the world ends \/ Not with a bang but a whimper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such as it will be with Green, who has attempted to impeach Donald J. Trump now no less than nine times; all of these attempts have been unsuccessful despite a small but substantial amount of Democrat support, and Green and will leave office two years before Trump does. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>All of these impeachment attempts were on dim and specious grounds, too, ranging from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/democrats-vs-trump\/democrat-unveils-then-shelves-articles-impeachment-against-trump-n809876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firing<\/a> of former FBI Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/priceless-comey-now-become-villain-book-just-read-description\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Comey<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-impeachment-al-green-b502204187ee4b0d7bfb340302a88eae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taking<\/a> military action against Iran. I\u2019m frankly surprised he just got around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cbs-news-covers-fire-renee-good-memorial-ignoring-lefts-defacing-charlie-kirk-tributes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to the ICE\/CBP impeachment attempt <em>now<\/em><\/a>, but Al never came across as a guy who was terribly on top of any issue, aside from whether he was getting enough attention.<\/p>\n<p>And he was always getting too much attention. Basically awarded a lifetime sinecure in a deep-blue Houston district when he won a 2004 primary, he had that seat drawn out of existence when Texas redistricted earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>He ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-longtime-democrat-rep-al-green-defeated-will-lose-seat-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">losing a primary battle<\/a> to Democratic Rep. Christian Menefee, another black Democrat whose district was effectively consolidated with Green\u2019s; Menefee is both considerably younger and takes his job seriously, which are two benefits when you actually have to worry about what the voters think of you.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake: Green never did. In addition to the nine impeachment attempts \u2014 all of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-rep-al-green-escorted-state-union-barely-60-seconds-trumps-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which were publicity stunts<\/a>, usually designed to generate a few cable news hits and which seldom drew much support from anyone in his own party when they made it to the floor \u2014 he also got kicked out of two Trump speeches to a joint session of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/house-members-move-hold-rep-al-green-accountable-childish-disruption-trumps-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March of 2025<\/a>, when Trump had been in office for just a few months and the speech wasn\u2019t technically a State of the Union address, Green got ejected for heckling the president with his cane:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepAlGreen?\">@RepAlGreen<\/a> (D-TX) is removed from the Joint Session of Congress. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GJVHJpZHGc\">pic.twitter.com\/GJVHJpZHGc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/1897112970221531409?\">March 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The House ended up censuring him for this, which led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democrats-launch-bizarre-musical-protest-house-floor-rep-al-green-officially-censured\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a few of his congressional supporters<\/a> singing \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d after the vote:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">U.S. House censures <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepAlGreen?\">@RepAlGreen<\/a> for his conduct during President Trump\u2019s address to a joint session of Congress, 224-198-2. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KTFxsbow77\">pic.twitter.com\/KTFxsbow77<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/1897674854461067763?\">March 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-rep-al-green-escorted-state-union-barely-60-seconds-trumps-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 State of the Union<\/a>, Green got ejected within minutes again, this time for holding up a sign that said \u201cBlack People Aren\u2019t Apes!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Attempting to recapture his magic of last year, Rep. Al Green walks out of the SOTU address carrying a banner reading \u201cBlack People Aren\u2019t Apes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all so tired. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zqBglSjWR6\">pic.twitter.com\/zqBglSjWR6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Media Research Center (@theMRC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theMRC\/status\/2026481767432024095?\">February 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To show how little anyone cared at this point, the House GOP decided against even bothering to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-reps-might-not-censure-al-green-state-union-antics-may-not-bad-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">censure him a second time<\/a>. Which is a shame in one way, because that choral rendition of \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d needed a little bit of practice. The decision was probably the correct one, though.<\/p>\n<p>And now, probably for one last time, we have to pretend as if Al Green\u2019s impeachment articles mean anything. Even at the height of #TheResistance, the Democrats considered these measures to be an embarrassment and a sideshow, which is impressive when you consider the embarrassments and sideshows the American left has engaged in since Donald Trump\u2019s 2015 escalator ride to make life hell upon any conservative who doesn\u2019t consider the 45th and 47th president evil incarnate.<\/p>\n<p>I say probably, but who knows? This might not be Green\u2019s one last whimper. After all, given that he\u2019s a lame duck and he doesn\u2019t even need a good (or any) reason to file these fool things, why not make it an even 10 before the lame-duck 78-year-old legislative embarrassment finally calls it a day?<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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