HouseH.Res. 1486119th Congress
Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1486
Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high
crimes and misdemeanors.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 24, 2026
Mr. Green of Texas submitted the following resolution; which was
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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RESOLUTION
Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high
crimes and misdemeanors.
Resolved, that Donald John Trump, President of the United States,
is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, as he has violated
article II, section 1, clause 8 of the United States Constitution by
failing to uphold his constitutionally mandated solemn Presidential
oath of office to ``preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of
the United States,'' thereby demonstrating that he is a great threat to
democracy and the Constitution for current high crimes and misdemeanors
not cited in H. Res. 24, under which he was impeached on January 13,
2021, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to
the Senate:
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives
of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people
of the United States of America, against Donald John Trump, President
of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its
impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
article i
Our country and the lives of people within it are at risk as
President Donald John Trump is a great threat to the United States
democratic republic, its Constitution, and democracy, violating article
II, section 1, clause 8 of the United States Constitution and its
mandate to faithfully 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, as he is 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 Renee
Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastian Duran
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.
The case for President Donald John Trump's impeachment is as
follows:
``Shall any man be above justice?'' These immortal words of
Constitutional Convention delegate George Mason became the impetus for
adding high crimes and misdemeanors to the Constitution as grounds for
the impeachment of a President who commits injustices harmful to the
republic (society) or who, if left in office, would be a threat to the
republic.
Ahead of the 2024 election, former Vice President Dick Cheney
declared, ``In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been an
individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald
Trump.''.
The President is reducing American democracy to an authoritarian
regime. An authoritarian regime is a system of government that has no
established mechanism for the transfer of executive power and limits
citizens' civil liberties or political rights, often characterized by a
leader with near absolute power, a powerful secret police force, low
political trust, and little tolerance of dissent.
The President is overseeing and defending unjustified killings. An
unjustified killing is a death caused by someone--often a law
enforcement officer or other authorized actor--when there was no lawful
reason, immediate threat, or legal justification for using deadly
force, making the act unlawful under criminal or human rights
standards.
The President is covering up unjustified killings. A coverup is a
usually concerted effort to keep an illegal or unethical act or
situation from being made public.
The United States Constitution accords the United States House of
Representatives the power to impeach a President 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,
codified in article II, section 1, clause 8 of the United States
Constitution.
High crimes and misdemeanors need not be criminal or statutory,
and are therefore not constrained by Federal criminal or civil
statutes. Impeachment is a political question, as the offenses ``relate
chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself,'' as
determined by a majority vote of the United States House of
Representatives.
High crimes and misdemeanors committed by the President of the
United States and not addressed by this body (the United States House
of Representatives) through its sovereign impeachment power,
unconstrained by the ostensible will of the United States Senate,
threaten the very fabric and survival of the United States Constitution
and our democratic republic.
After having been impeached by the United States House of
Representatives on January 13, 2021, under articles of impeachment in
H. Res. 24, stating that Donald John Trump, ``. . . has demonstrated
that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the
Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner
grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law.''
Dangerously, President Trump continues to be a threat to the United
States, democracy, the Constitution, and the United States democratic
republic if allowed to remain in office, as he has replaced those he
incited to assault the Capitol with ICE and CBP.
On the first day of his second four-year term as President of the
United States, he made it perspicuously clear to ICE and CBP officers
that he would pardon them for breaches of Federal law by pardoning more
than 1,000 persons convicted of Federal crimes associated with the
January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. He now continues to act
in a manner ``grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of
law'' by condoning Federal investigators withholding evidence from
local investigators and engaging in coverups, thereby protecting the
offending officers instead of the American people.
President Trump, using the powers of his high office, individually
and in coordination with officers in his administration, has
transformed ICE and CBP into dangerous, unaccountable paramilitary
police forces that operate without oversight and pose a direct threat
to the constitutional order of the United States and the people of the
United States. By such abuses of power, President Trump is brazenly and
wantonly devolving the United States democratic republic into an
authoritarian regime.
Under President Trump, ICE and CBP operate with impunity while
armed with military-grade weapons and control vast resources provided
by taxpayers to fund President Trump's anti-democracy agenda.
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 arrests, unjustified detentions, and
unjustified killings. These unjustified killings include those of Renee
Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastian Duran
Guerrero.
President Trump, by his conduct, continues to demonstrate that he
is a great threat to democracy, the United States Constitution, and the
democratic republic, by dangerously flouting constitutional rights,
including:
(1) enabling ICE and CBP to act as judge, jury, prosecutor,
and executioner by assaulting and committing unjustified
killings of people with impunity, in violation of the Fifth
Amendment right to due process;
(2) enabling ICE and CBP to operate with anonymity and in
secrecy to terrorize communities, in violation of the Fourth
Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures
and the Fifth Amendment right to due process;
(3) enabling ICE and CBP to undermine civil liberties and
basic freedom of speech, in violation of the First Amendment
right to free speech; and
(4) undermining judicial oversight.
As a result, ICE and CBP, under President Trump's authority, have
been converted into his militarized secret police forces (often acting
as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner) that violate and debase,
instead of uphold, the rule of law by abusing and harming those they
should protect, as explicated below for each of the above topics.
(1) enabling ice and cbp to act as judge, jury, prosecutor, and
executioner when assaulting and committing unjustified killings with
impunity, in violation of the fifth amendment right to due process
Under President Trump's control and with the support and backing
of senior officials in his administration, Federal immigration officers
have conducted unjustified killings of civilians with impunity,
including Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan
Sebastian Duran Guerrero. The Trump administration has encouraged,
condoned, and covered up these unjustified killings by protecting the
shooters and spreading dangerous misinformation about the shootings and
the victims while obstructing State and local investigations.
Preventing local investigations, congressional oversight, and judicial
accountability has enabled ICE and CBP officers to act with impunity as
judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.
On January 7, 2026, an ICE officer shot and killed 37-year-old
Renee Nicole Good, an unarmed civilian, U.S. citizen, Minneapolis
resident, wife, mother of young children, and poet. Video evidence
demonstrates and witnesses confirm that she posed no threat to ICE
officers when an ICE officer opened fire, shooting her three times,
striking her in the head, and killing her. ICE officers failed to
render any aid to Ms. Good, in violation of DHS policies, and blocked
and then delayed emergency medical personnel from reaching her. This is
an unjustified killing.
President Trump, directly and through senior officials in his
administration, including then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, immediately
began to cover up the crime and protect ICE officers from being held
responsible for Ms. Good's killing. They repeatedly lied about Ms.
Good, the ICE officers' actions, and the events surrounding the
shooting, all of which are refuted by witnesses and video evidence of
the event. The Trump administration, by and through the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI), blocked Minnesota law enforcement from gaining
access to materials and evidence related to the shooting, and the Civil
Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) refused to
investigate the killing. Instead, the FBI and DOJ tried to force
employees to investigate Ms. Good's widow, which prompted a wave of
resignations. On January 7, 2026, President Trump issued the following
statement on Truth Social:
``I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place
in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The
woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and
the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and
resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran
over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-
defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he
is alive but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation
is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these
incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is
threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement
Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying
to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and
protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left
Movement of Violence and Hate! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.''.
The above statement is proof of President Trump's enabling of a
coverup and condoning of an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a
Federal immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and
executioner.
On January 24, 2026, Federal immigration officers killed Alex
Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, when he was part of a small group of
approximately fifteen peaceful protesters. Video and witness accounts
demonstrate that immediately before the shooting, a Federal officer
shoved a female observer standing next to Mr. Pretti. When Mr. Pretti
moved between the officer and the woman he had assaulted, the officer
sprayed Mr. Pretti with a chemical agent and pulled him to his knees.
At least six other officers then surrounded Mr. Pretti, pushed him to
the ground, and took possession of Mr. Pretti's gun. Officers then shot
Mr. Pretti at least nine times, killing him. As with the unjustified
killing of Ms. Good, the Federal officers did not provide medical aid.
Although Mr. Pretti was armed--with a gun he was legally licensed to
carry--he never brandished it at any point during the encounter,
despite being assaulted physically, including with chemical agents, and
a Federal officer had control of Mr. Pretti's weapon when he was
killed.
President Trump, once again, directly and through senior officials
in his administration, including then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,
attempted to cover up the crime, protect the ICE officers who killed
Mr. Pretti, and spread dangerous and demonstrably false disinformation
about Mr. Pretti, the protest, and his unjustified killing. On January
30, 2026, President Trump issued the following statement on Truth
Social:
``Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti's
stock has gone way down with the just released video of him
screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under
control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very
expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact,
that the taillight broke off in pieces. It was quite a display
of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control.
The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be
under those circumstances! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.''.
The above statement is further proof of President Trump's enabling
of a coverup and condoning of an unjustified killing. Without a trial,
a Federal immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and
executioner.
On July 7, 2026, an ICE officer shot and killed 52-year-old
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, an undocumented immigrant who had lived and
worked in the United States for nearly 35 years and was the father of
three U.S. citizens, as he drove his construction crew to a Houston job
site. Federal officers in two unmarked SUVs drove erratically to follow
Mr. Araujo, including by driving on the wrong side of the street toward
Mr. Araujo's vehicle. After blocking Mr. Araujo's vehicle, Federal
officers--none of whom were wearing body cameras--committed the
unjustified killing of Mr. Araujo, who was unarmed and not a target of
an investigation, and arrested the surviving passengers. Three
witnesses have stated that the ICE officials shot at Mr. Araujo soon
after they exited their vehicle and that Mr. Araujo never drove the
vehicle toward the unmarked SUVs or the ICE officers. A spokesperson
for DHS, echoing false claims it has made repeatedly, including to
justify the killing of Ms. Good, claimed that they shot Mr. Araujo
because he rammed an ICE vehicle, a claim not supported by video
evidence and contradicted by witnesses. Federal officials took Mr.
Araujo's belongings and sent him to the hospital as a John Doe. His
sons had to learn about his death by seeing video footage of their
father dying in the street where he was shot.
DOJ and DHS, acting under the authority and control of President
Trump, have refused to cooperate with local investigations, refused to
disclose the names of the perpetrators, claimed the officers involved
acted in self-defense, and are painting Mr. Araujo as an aggressor
before any investigation has been completed. These self-defense claims
are not supported by available video evidence and are contradicted by
witnesses. Federal officials also publicly insinuated that Mr. Araujo
was involved in narcotics activity by highlighting the discovery of a
``crystal-like substance'' in his vehicle. Subsequent laboratory
testing confirmed that the substance was not an illicit drug,
disproving those suggestions.
This too is an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a Federal
immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.
On July 13, 2026, ICE officers killed Mr. Johan Sebastian Duran
Guerrero, an unarmed man, in Biddeford, Maine, during yet another
purported traffic stop in which the victim posed no threat to the ICE
officers who gunned him down. DHS claims that it was surveilling the
last-known address of someone with a final order of removal, followed
someone who left that residence, and then, when that person drove away
in the vehicle, the officer, ``fearing for public safety,'' shot and
killed Mr. Guerrero, while his wife watched from their apartment
building window. In fact, ICE officers were looking for someone else;
Mr. Guerrero had work authorization, was a husband, and was the father
of a three-year-old daughter who had to see her father lying dead in
the street after being gunned down by ICE officers.
This too is an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a Federal
immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.
Though DHS briefly ceased non-urgent traffic stops after its
officers unjustifiably killed two people within a single week,
President Trump swiftly announced his support for DHS policies that
have resulted in the brutal killing of civilians, via a social media
post: ``The men and women of ICE are doing a GREAT job, one that has to
be done. We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective
Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!'' President Trump continued to
condone unjustified killings by ICE and CBP officials.
(2) enabling ice and cbp to operate with anonymity and secrecy to
terrorize communities, in violation of the fourth amendment protection
against unreasonable searches and seizures and the fifth amendment
right to due process
Under President Trump's control, ICE and CBP officers hide their
identities by wearing masks and other face coverings, failing to wear
identifying uniforms, refusing to provide their names and badge
numbers, and entering homes without warrants. Through government-
sanctioned anonymity, officers evade accountability to the public,
elected officials, and the courts. Under President Trump's direction,
his administration has actively refused to cooperate with and has
intentionally hampered State investigations into abuses by Federal
officers, withholding important evidence to shield officers from
scrutiny for unjustified killings in Minnesota, Texas, and Maine. The
masks worn by officers also inspire fear and instill terror in their
victims and the communities in which the officers operate. As Judge
William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District
of Massachusetts explained: ``ICE goes masked for a single reason--to
terrorize Americans into quiescence. . . . [M]asks are associated with
cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history,
we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.''.
(3) enabling ice and cbp to undermine civil liberties and basic freedom
of speech, in violation of the first amendment right to free speech
With President Trump's express support and encouragement, ICE and
CBP have targeted and unconstitutionally arrested pro-Palestinian
students and academics without an adequate legal basis in violation of
their First Amendment right to free speech, including Mahmoud Khalil,
Rumeysa Ozturk, Mohsen Mahdawi, and Badar Khan Suri, among others.
Under President Trump's command, ICE and CBP are operating with
impunity to carry out mass, unlawful arrests; illegally imprison
people; illegally remove them from the country; and commit violent
crimes against people in an effort to terrorize and silence the
American people. In addition to conducting the unjustified killings of
civilians, including Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo,
and Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, ICE and CBP, as part of their
normal course of activity, have violently assaulted individuals, used
unnecessary force, smashed car windows, and abducted and disappeared
individuals.
(4) undermining judicial oversight by flouting the separation of powers
President Trump, directly and through officials within his
administration, has abused his power by shielding ICE and CBP officers
from judicial oversight. These agencies have detained and removed
individuals despite court orders blocking their removal from the
country. Specifically, though not exhaustively, ICE deported Kilmar
Abrego Garcia to El Salvador against a court order due to an
administrative error, and then President Trump and his administration
refused to facilitate his return for several months in defiance of a
U.S. Supreme Court order. ICE also deported about 250 Venezuelan men to
El Salvador without due process, directly disobeying an emergency order
from a Federal judge. In a conversation with El Salvador's president,
President Trump suggested detaining and sending U.S. citizens to
foreign prisons: ``The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns.''.
With the support and backing of President Trump and senior
officials in his administration, officers and other agency employees
have refused to cooperate with and have actively undermined State and
local investigations into misconduct by ICE officers. Federal officials
have undertaken baseless public investigations into the victims and the
victims' families; they have made official (but false) assurances that
ICE officers are immune from prosecution; and pursuant to President
Trump's authority, both the FBI and the DOJ have not prosecuted crimes
committed by ICE and CBP officers. Furthermore, ICE has blatantly
disregarded court orders to release or refrain from moving detainees,
again with President Trump's knowledge and pursuant to his orders and
authority.
The Trump administration acknowledged violating New Jersey Federal
judges' orders more than 50 times over the course of 10 weeks in
deportation-related cases. Minnesota's chief Federal judge, Patrick J.
Schiltz, detailed in a ruling that ICE violated nearly 100 court orders
and had disobeyed more judicial directives in January 2026 alone than
``some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.'' A
Reuters review of court records found that hundreds of judges have
ruled that the Trump administration has unlawfully detained immigrants
more than 4,400 times since October 2025, and Politico compiled a
database of at least 15,000 rulings against the administration since
July 2025; yet, the administration continues to jail people
indefinitely.
In all of this, President Donald John Trump has violated the
article II, section 1, clause 8-mandated Presidential oath of office to
faithfully 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; has abused the powers of the Presidency by
committing high crimes and misdemeanors, in a manner contrary to his
trust as President; has detrimentally flouted the United States
Constitution by operating vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable
paramilitary forces killing people (including Renee Good, Alex Pretti,
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero); and is now
even closer to brazenly and wantonly devolving the United States
democratic republic into an authoritarian regime, where, if left in
office, unjustified killings of people and coverups by ICE and CBP are
normalized to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and
to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by such conduct, warrants
impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
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