Texas Democrat Al Green just filed his eighth impeachment attempt against President Trump, and he still can’t point to an actual crime.
Story Snapshot
- Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, filed H.Res. 1486 on August 24, 2026, accusing Trump of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
- This marks Green’s eighth impeachment push against Trump since 2017, and none have ever led to conviction.
- The new resolution centers on Trump’s immigration crackdown and how Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried it out.
- Trump’s own past legal team has argued that policy disagreements are not impeachable offenses under the Constitution.
- The effort faces no realistic path forward in a Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
Eighth Time Is Not the Charm for Al Green
Rep. Al Green announced on August 24, 2026, that he filed articles of impeachment, H.Res. 1486, against President Trump. The resolution accuses Trump of “high crimes and misdemeanors” tied to his administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement. Green claims Trump abused his presidential powers by directing how federal agents carried out deportations.
This is not new territory for Green. He has now tried to impeach Trump eight separate times, dating back to October 2017. Earlier attempts covered everything from the Iran nuclear facility strikes to unrelated grievances about the president’s conduct in office, and every single one has failed to gain traction.
A Long Résumé of Failed Attempts
Green’s history shows a pattern. He brought an article of impeachment in June 2025 over the strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, claiming Trump acted without congressional approval. That effort went nowhere, just like the ones before it. Democrats have repeatedly used impeachment as a messaging tool rather than a real removal strategy.
Academic research backs this up. Studies of impeachment resolutions find they are driven mostly by a lawmaker’s own ideology and party loyalty, not by any objective legal threshold being met. Major scandals push more resolutions, but conviction rarely follows because the votes simply are not there in a divided Congress.
The Constitutional Standard Democrats Keep Skipping
The Constitution allows impeachment for “high Crimes and Misdemeanors,” and Congress has real discretion in deciding what that means. But discretion is not a blank check. Trump’s own legal team argued in a past impeachment fight that the articles brought against him were “not recognizable under any standard of Constitutional theory” and included “no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever”.
That argument has held up before. During Trump’s first impeachment trial, attorney Alan Dershowitz told the Senate that “abuse of power, even if proved, is not an impeachable offense”. Critics on the left dispute that framing, but the core problem for Green remains the same: accusing a president of overreach is not the same as proving a specific, provable crime.
Immigration Enforcement Becomes Impeachment Bait
Green’s latest filing leans heavily on immigration. He argues Trump abused his powers by operating Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection in ways Green considers unlawful during the ongoing enforcement crackdown. In plain terms, Green is impeaching a president for enforcing immigration law, something voters actually asked for at the ballot box.
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Local Houston Democrats rallied behind Green anyway. State Representative Christina Morales and a local advocacy group held a press conference supporting H.Res. 1486, framing the immigration enforcement operations as grounds for removing the president from office. It is a local show of support, but it does nothing to change the math in Washington.
Why This Effort Goes Nowhere
Republicans control the House, and there is zero appetite among GOP lawmakers to advance another impeachment vote over immigration enforcement that most conservative voters actually support. Green’s resolution is likely headed for the same fate as his previous seven attempts: a quick dismissal or a vote that fails along party lines.
For conservative voters frustrated with years of open borders and lax enforcement, Green’s latest stunt confirms what many already suspected. Democrats keep reaching for impeachment as a political weapon instead of building an actual legal case. Enforcing the law is not a high crime, no matter how many resolutions get filed against the man doing it.
Sources:
twitchy.com, algreen.house.gov, nbcnews.com, thehill.com, law.cornell.edu, lawfaremedia.org, congress.gov
