The House of Representatives decisively rejected a renewed bid by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) on Tuesday to impeach President Trump in response to the recent U.S. military strikes in Iran. Despite anger among some Democrats over the weekend’s events, the vote revealed little momentum within the party to pursue impeachment at this time.
In a lopsided 344-79 vote, the House opted to table Green’s resolution, effectively shelving the effort. Notably, 128 Democrats joined their Republican colleagues in voting to dismiss the measure, signaling bipartisan resistance to launching another impeachment proceeding.
Rep. Green has long been one of Trump’s most outspoken critics, frequently calling for impeachment over a range of issues involving both foreign and domestic policy. His latest resolution centered on Trump’s decision to authorize airstrikes against three Iranian targets without first obtaining congressional approval.
Filing the resolution once again on Tuesday, Green asserted that Trump violated his constitutional responsibilities by bypassing Congress before initiating military action. The resolution states: “In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, abused the powers of the presidency when he disregarded the doctrine of separation of powers by usurping Congress’s power to declare war and ordered the United States military to bomb another country without the constitutionally mandated congressional authorization or notice to Congress — cognizant of the fact that should another country’s military bomb a facility within the United States of America, it would be a de facto declaration of war against the United States of America.”
{Matzav.com}