Al Green's last impeachment stunt died on the House floor by a landslide vote.
Now the Texas Democrat who just got wiped out in his own primary is forcing another one.
What Green sent the White House this time might be the strangest move of his career.
Green's Eighth Impeachment Bid Leans on Four ICE Encounters
Rep. Al Green filed House Resolution 1486 on August 24.
He's using it to force a floor vote by Wednesday.
That move is called a privileged resolution – a House rule that any single member can trigger, putting leadership on the clock for a vote within two legislative days.
Green built this attempt around four 2026 immigration enforcement encounters – Renée Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine.
Every one of those names comes from a federal immigration enforcement operation, the kind of operation Democrats have spent years trying to defund.
His resolution brands those same agents "vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary police forces."
Most Americans call it agents doing a hard job Democrats want to prosecute instead of fund.
Green sent the White House a personal letter arguing that further delay would cost lives, and topped it off by invoking Dick Cheney as though that settled the argument.
None of it changes the math waiting for him on the House floor.
The Congressman Who Just Lost His Own Job Wants to Take Trump's
Al Green lost his Democratic primary runoff in May by nearly 40 points.
He's leaving Congress in January whether Trump does or not.
He's tried this before, and every previous attempt has ended the same way.
Republicans tabled his first try 364 to 58.
They tabled his second 355 to 66.
Jeffries isn't new to this fight either – in June 2025, he was one of 128 House Democrats who voted with Republicans to shut down an earlier Green impeachment push.
Green's most recent attempt before this one, filed last December, went down in flames too.
Green is 79 years old with nothing left to lose politically.
This looks less like a legal strategy and more like a farewell tour.
Jeffries Gets Dragged Into a Vote He Never Wanted
House Democratic leadership has spent months insisting the party's focus is the cost of living, not impeachment.
Green just blew that message up two months before the midterms.
Every Democrat in a swing district now has to go on record either defending Trump or standing behind a colleague who called federal immigration agents an unaccountable paramilitary force.
Republicans control the House, so this resolution is headed for the same graveyard as Green's first seven.
But the recorded vote stays on the books straight through November.
Republican strategists have wanted exactly this fight for months.
A recorded impeachment vote hands GOP campaigns a ready-made attack ad in dozens of swing districts.
Jeffries can whip his caucus to table it, but he can't stop voters from seeing who stood where.
Green even told colleagues in a letter that waiting for "next year" wasn't good enough, framing his own party's caution as complicity.
That's the same argument his own leadership has rejected every time he's made it.
Green Is Settling a Personal Score on His Way Out the Door
Al Green isn't trying to remove Trump from office – he already knows he can't.
Voters back home already delivered their verdict on him – this is him grabbing the microphone one more time before he goes.
He's dressing up a personal grudge as a constitutional crisis, and dragging Hakeem Jeffries into it whether Jeffries likes it or not.
That's not principle. That's a lame-duck congressman settling a score and handing his own party the bill for it, two months before an election Democrats can't afford to lose.
Every swing-district Democrat now has to vote yes and hand Republicans a campaign ad, or vote no and admit Green's own resolution was theater all along.
Trump has already survived multiple versions of this exact vote, and the outcome of number eight was written the moment Green filed the paperwork.
Sources:
- Elizabeth Elkind, "Democrat Al Green to force House-wide vote on impeaching Trump," Fox News, September 14, 2026.
- Joseph Chalfant, "Al Green Is Trying to Impeach Trump…Again," Townhall, September 14, 2026.
- Staff, "Rep. Al Green Moves to Force Trump Impeachment Vote," The Gateway Pundit, September 14, 2026.
- Staff, "Al Green Says He Will Force House Vote on Impeachment Resolution Against President Trump This Week," 100 Percent Fed Up, September 14, 2026.
- Staff, "Green's Impeachment Resolution Rejected by House," Washington Free Beacon.
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