Rep. Al Green of Texas Loses in His Latest Attempt to Impeach Trump

Rep. Al Green of Texas Loses in His Latest Attempt to Impeach Trump

Congressman Al Green (D-TX) is fond of trying to impeach Trump, but he isn’t very good at it. He tried to do it back in June, but the effort went down in flames, so he figured he would have another go.

No luck this time either.

FOX News reports:

23 Dems join House Republicans to kill progressive’s Trump impeachment bid

A lone progressive’s effort to impeach President Donald Trump failed Thursday, with nearly two dozen Democrats joining the House GOP to quash it.

Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, moved to get a vote on two articles of impeachment Wednesday night via a privileged resolution, a mechanism allowing lawmakers to force action on a bill within two legislative days.

Republicans called for a vote to table the measure on Thursday, a move that effectively kills consideration of the bill itself when a privileged resolution is called for.

Twenty-three Democrats joined Republicans in pushing the impeachment aside. A significant number of Democrats also voted “present,” including all three senior leaders — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif.

“Impeachment is a sacred constitutional vehicle designed to hold a corrupt executive accountable for abuse of power, breaking the law and violating the public trust. The effort traditionally requires a comprehensive investigative process, the collection and review of thousands of documents, an exacting scrutiny of the facts, the examination of dozens of key witnesses, Congressional hearings, sustained public organizing and the marshaling of the forces of democracy to build a broad national consensus,” the trio said in a statement explaining their vote.

Make no mistake, Democrats want to impeach Trump again, and they will try to do so if they regain control of the House next year. They just know that Green’s effort is pointless while they’re out of power.

According to Axios, some Democrats were angry with Green for putting them in this position:

Infuriated Dems 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.

Why it matters: The vote enraged Democrats, many of whom despise the increasingly caustic use of impeachment as a political tool but don’t want to be seen as supporting Trump’s actions and risk angering the party base.

• “I hate it,” one senior House Democrat told Axios on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about a sensitive vote.
• “This is not a team effort,” another House Democrat told Axios. “It puts us in a difficult position.”

In this video report from FOX News, Republican Tiffany Smiley suggests that if Democrats win the midterms, they will not just try to impeach Trump; they will go after members of his cabinet like Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem. Watch:

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