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   From: Davecross@kremlin.ru   
      
   Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, introduced articles of impeachment   
   against President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening, a move that   
   could force the House to take up the controversial subject later   
   this week over the opposition of Democratic leaders.   
      
   Green, who has pushed to impeach Trump since 2017, and   
   unsuccessfully pushed the House to vote on impeachment multiple   
   times in the last session of Congress, introduced the measure   
   after the House voted to condemn Trump's Twitter attacks against   
   four Democratic congresswomen of color.   
      
   Nearly 60 Democrats backed an earlier version of Green's measure   
   in December 2017, which was successfully killed by Republican   
   leaders at the time.   
      
   The White House declined to comment.   
      
   The Texas Democrat said the effort was prompted by Trump's   
   tweets over the weekend, as well as previous statements from the   
   president about immigrants and in the wake of the violence in   
   Charlottesville after a white supremacist rally in 2017.   
      
   "I believe we must check him now or we might find somebody   
   harmed," Green said on MSNBC Tuesday evening.   
      
   Trump, Green said Tuesday, reading from his impeachment   
   resolution, "has, by his statements, brought the high office of   
   the president of the United States in contempt, ridicule,   
   disgrace and disrepute."   
      
   Because the resolution is privileged, Green could force a vote   
   on the floor within two legislative days. Democratic leaders   
   could decide to take up the articles of impeachment, table the   
   measure indefinitely, or refer the matter to the House Judiciary   
   Committee.   
      
   The vote, something party leaders would like to avoid, would   
   effectively force the House Democratic caucus on the record on   
   impeachment, including dozens of moderate freshmen who would   
   rather discuss the party's agenda, and the unpopular and   
   controversial topic of impeachment, before they return home for   
   the August recess.   
      
   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters it would be up to   
   Democratic leadership to consider.   
      
   "I haven't talked to him about it, and I know he feels strongly   
   about it," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday   
   morning, adding that leadership hadn't yet discussed the matter.   
      
   Any vote would likely divide the caucus. While at least 86 House   
   Democrats support launching impeachment proceedings against   
   President Trump, according to an ABC News analysis, Green's   
   effort is not based on the findings of the Mueller report -   
   which Democrats have labored to highlight in a series of   
   hearings and additional investigations.   
      
   Many Democrats are also reluctant to consider the topic and go   
   on the record ahead of special counsel Robert Mueller's   
   testimony next week.   
      
   Stupid niggers.  Stupid Democrats.   
      
   https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-democrat-introduces-   
   articles-impeachment-trump/story?id=64380733   
          
      
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