Al Green files Trump impeachment articles after 128 Democrats helped kill Iran measure
The Texas Democrat filed new articles after an earlier Iran-related impeachment vote showed many Democrats unwilling to advance the effort.
Rep. Al Green, the Texas Democrat, has filed articles of impeachment against President Trump, H.Res. 1486, according to his House office. The filing follows a prior Green effort over Trump’s unilateral strikes on Iranian nuclear sites that Axios reported was tabled after 128 Democrats joined Republicans.
In the Iran-related vote, Axios reported, the House voted 344 to 79 on a GOP motion to table Green’s article of impeachment. The split put members on record by name: 128 Democrats joined Republicans to defeat the measure, while 79 Democrats voted to bring it to the floor.
What Green’s resolution actually says
Green, who represents Texas’ 9th Congressional District in Houston, filed articles of impeachment against Trump in H.Res. 1486, which his office announced on Monday, August 24, 2026, accusing the president of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The resolution is a five-page document, and the specific charges are laid out in the official text posted through his House office.
His earlier impeachment pushes followed a similar template. According to Axios, a prior Green resolution accused Trump of “Disregarding the Separation of Powers” and “Devolving American Democracy into Authoritarianism by Unconstitutionally Usurping Congress’s Power to Declare War.” That version centered on Trump’s decision to strike Iranian nuclear sites without seeking congressional authorization and on his failure to provide evidence of an “imminent threat” to U.S. forces.
Green’s House office said the articles were filed as H.Res. 1486 and directed readers to the official documents for the specific charges. The available announcement establishes the filing, while separate vote records show how earlier impeachment resolutions were handled on the House floor.
How the last vote went
The most recent showdown showed exactly how these efforts die. On December 11, 2025, per the House Clerk’s official record, the House voted 237 to 140 on a Republican motion to table — that is, kill — an impeachment resolution against Trump, with 47 members voting present and 9 not voting.
The more revealing number was inside the Democratic caucus. Axios reported that when Green forced a vote over the Iran strikes, 128 Democrats joined Republicans to defeat his measure, while 79 voted to bring it to the floor. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was among the 128, as was former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Axios characterized the result as the clearest signal to date of the distaste many Democrats have for even attempting to impeach Trump — an effort the outlet noted would likely fail in either chamber of Congress. On that reading, the Democratic defectors were not defending Trump’s conduct; they were declining to attach their names to a vote most saw as futile.
Why Green keeps doing this
Green has served in the House since 2005 and is now in his eleventh term, according to his official biography. A former civil rights advocate and one-time justice of the peace in Harris County, he has built his congressional identity around forcing issues his party would rather avoid.
The House historian’s records show Trump was impeached by the House on December 18, 2019, on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The available evidence for this article does not establish the details of Green’s earlier impeachment efforts beyond the later filings and votes documented in House and news records.
Green’s argument is essentially that recorded votes are a form of public accounting. If members will not support impeachment, he wants their names attached to that refusal. Critics, including many in his own party, counter that repeated doomed votes trivialize the impeachment power itself and hand Republicans a talking point about Democratic overreach.
The math makes removal impossible
It is worth being direct about what the sourced records show. Axios described Green’s Iran-related impeachment push as an effort that would likely fail in either chamber of Congress, and the recorded House vote showed broad opposition to advancing that measure.
Even at the House stage, the documented votes show steep resistance. Axios reported a 344-to-79 vote to table the Iran-related measure in June 2025, while a separate House Clerk record shows a December 11, 2025 motion to table an impeachment resolution passed 237 to 140, with 47 present and 9 not voting.
That gap between what the resolution promises and what it can deliver is the core of the disagreement over whether these votes are principled or performative.
What happens next
The next verifiable question is how the House handles Green’s H.Res. 1486 if it reaches the floor. The prior records offer context, but they do not by themselves establish who will move to table the new resolution, how Democrats will divide, or what the final margin would be.
Those margins are the real story Green is engineering. Each roll call becomes a data point on Democratic unity heading into future election cycles. Whether that constitutes accountability or theater is the question the House will answer again, one name at a time.
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Original Article Source: Idaho Public Press
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