IMPEACH
DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY.
TRUMP.
again.
“A republic, if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin, 1787
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“A republic, if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin, 1787 ✦
Defend democracy.
In the time since his second inauguration, Trump has carried out an assault on the rule of law, on the checks and balances of power between our co-equal branches of government, and on the United States Constitution. Donald Trump is disqualified from the presidency. And now he is committing multiple abuses of power in violation of clear constitutional commands and at the expense of our democratic institutions, constitutional precedent, and the health and safety of all of our people, especially the most vulnerable. Congress must take action.
Demand accountability.
Trump is not a monarch. He is beholden to the Constitution, as is Congress. And as the Founders understood, if we are to preserve our democracy for the people, then Congress has a duty to investigate and, if necessary, remove a corrupt executive.
Free Speech For People is calling on Congress to launch an immediate impeachment investigation to determine whether there are sufficient grounds to impeach Donald Trump for offenses that have already occurred and that will continue in the days to come. Congress must also be prepared to expand its investigation if Trump undertakes any of the other impeachable actions that he has threatened to carry out.
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Congress should have opened an impeachment investigation on Day 1 of Trump’s second administration into Trump’s violations of the Emoluments Clauses and into his unlawful, corrupt campaign practices. Since taking office, Trump has committed a growing list of impeachable offenses. Unless and until Congress takes its constitutional impeachment obligations seriously, Trump will continue to entrench his corrupt interests, usurp authority committed by the Constitution to other government branches, and abuse his power to the detriment of our democracy and the people of our country. Specifically, Congress must launch an impeachment investigation into Trump for:
1. Planning the forced removal of Palestinians in Gaza.
2. Abusing his power to seek retribution against perceived adversaries
3. Co-opting and dismantling independent government oversight
4. Unconstitutionally usurping Congress’s power
5. Defying court orders and unconstitutionally usurping judicial authority
6. Receiving foreign and domestic emoluments
7. Depriving citizens of their birthright citizenship
8. Corruptly dismissing criminal charges against Eric Adams
9. Abusing the pardon power
10. Abusing the emergency power
11. Blocking efforts to secure U.S. elections
12. Unlawfully and unconstitutionally attempting to deport immigrants for peacefully protesting
13. Unconstitutionally usurping local and state authority
14. Engaging in unlawful, corrupt practices during the 2024 presidential campaign
The case for impeachment
Click here to read more about why Congress must initiate an impeachment investigation on these grounds.
Congress must prepare to expand its scope of impeachment.
Since the 2024 election, Trump has promised to undertake a number of policies and practices that would, if implemented, qualify as impeachable abuses of power. These include plans to:
Unlawfully mobilize the U.S. military in U.S. cities;
Cruelly and unconstitutionally imprison and separate immigrant families;
Selectively prosecute or otherwise seek retribution against political rivals and journalists;
Appoint billionaire campaign contributors such as Elon Musk–including in manners that evade congressional oversight–to key positions that will provide them decision-making authority from which they are positioned to personally profit at the expense and to the detriment of the American people and in possible violation of the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses.
Why it matters
"The subject of [impeachment's] jurisdiction are those offences which proceed from the misconduct of men, or in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.” Alexander Hamilton,
The Federalist No. 65
The Framers recognized that the impeachment process is a core component of their efforts to quash corruption and protect the democracy. James Madison cautioned that elections alone are insufficient, especially for the President: “The limitation of the period of his service, was not a sufficient security… He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression. He might betray his trust to foreign powers… In the case of the Executive Magistracy which was to be administered by a single man, loss of capacity or corruption was more within the compass of probable events, and either of them might be fatal to the Republic.” James Madison, Notes of the Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787.
The Framers also understood that the impeachment process can also address corrupt acts in obtaining the office. George Mason asked rhetorically: “Shall the man who has practised corruption and by that means procured his appointment in the first instance, be suffered to escape punishment, by repeating his guilt?” (In 2010, Federal Judge Thomas Porteous was impeached and convicted largely based on conduct that occurred before he assumed federal office – including making false statements to the Senate and FBI in connection with his nomination and confirmation.) The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump, by Ron Fein, John Bonifaz, and Ben Clements, foreword by John Nichols (Melville House 2018), p. 29.
If a President commits an impeachable offense – whether through corrupt acts in reaching the office, whether on the first day of their term, or whether on any day thereafter during their term – Congress has a constitutional duty to impeach him. We The People therefore call upon Congress to meet its obligations, and to join us in committing to the idea that ourt Constitution, when read properly and followed faithfully, protects everyone from abuses of power, even abuses by those holding the highest offices in the land.