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Democratic members of Congress have filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth while nearly 100 congressional Democrats are calling for the president’s removal from office over his threats to Iran.
Rep. John Larson of Connecticut has filed 13 articles of impeachment against Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors, including the president’s “criminal lawlessness” that has “invited blowback against the United States and its citizens risking 9/11 2.0.”
The congressman accuses Trump of a “serial usurpation of the congressional war power” and “commission of murder, war crimes and piracy” with attacks in Iran, Venezuela and in international waters against alleged drug-running boats and elsewhere.
His proposal also accuses the president of illegally militarizing law enforcement and surging immigration officers into U.S. cities to unlawfully detain and deport “citizens or immigrants based significantly on race or ethnicity or political opposition.”
“Donald Trump has blown past every requirement to be removed from office. And it’s getting worse,” Larson said in a statement.
“His illegal war in Iran is not only driving up prices for American families — it has cost American lives,” he added. “He’s becoming more unstable by the day.”
The congressman’s proposal was drafted by consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader and constitutional law scholar Bruce Fein, who called the war “flagrantly unconstitutional” in The American Conservative this week.
“Trump’s attack on Iran in partnership with Israel was not in self-defense. It is a criminal war of aggression, plain and simple, including a violation of the United Nations Charter,” wrote Fein as he urged Congress to “do its job” and swiftly block spending and troop deployment.
White House spokesman Davis Ingle called Larson’s proposal “pathetic.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrats-introduce-impeachment-articles-against-151509118.html
Rep. John Larson of Connecticut has filed 13 articles of impeachment against Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors, including the president’s “criminal lawlessness” that has “invited blowback against the United States and its citizens risking 9/11 2.0.”
The congressman accuses Trump of a “serial usurpation of the congressional war power” and “commission of murder, war crimes and piracy” with attacks in Iran, Venezuela and in international waters against alleged drug-running boats and elsewhere.
His proposal also accuses the president of illegally militarizing law enforcement and surging immigration officers into U.S. cities to unlawfully detain and deport “citizens or immigrants based significantly on race or ethnicity or political opposition.”
“Donald Trump has blown past every requirement to be removed from office. And it’s getting worse,” Larson said in a statement.
“His illegal war in Iran is not only driving up prices for American families — it has cost American lives,” he added. “He’s becoming more unstable by the day.”
The congressman’s proposal was drafted by consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader and constitutional law scholar Bruce Fein, who called the war “flagrantly unconstitutional” in The American Conservative this week.
“Trump’s attack on Iran in partnership with Israel was not in self-defense. It is a criminal war of aggression, plain and simple, including a violation of the United Nations Charter,” wrote Fein as he urged Congress to “do its job” and swiftly block spending and troop deployment.
White House spokesman Davis Ingle called Larson’s proposal “pathetic.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrats-introduce-impeachment-articles-against-151509118.html
