On September 24, 2026, Congressman Steve Cohen filed a resolution containing 26 Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump. Cohen, a senior member of the Judiciary Committee with prior impeachment activity in 2017, frames the charges as a comprehensive record of abuses of power, violations of his oath of office, corrupt uses of the pardon power, and emoluments clause breaches. He asserts that Trump poses a danger to democracy, criticizes congressional inaction, and presents the resolution as a historical record of who stood against executive lawlessness while urging the 120th Congress to pursue accountability.
The articles allege a wide range of specific misconduct: sowing doubt about elections; waging war on Iran without congressional authorization; authorizing extrajudicial killings in Venezuelan waters; threatening or deploying military forces against U.S. cities; issuing a birthright citizenship executive order; canceling federal grants to punish states; imposing loyalty tests on federal employees; misuse of the Alien Enemies Act (the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case); cruel treatment at CECOT; unlawful withholding or impoundment of appropriated funds; obstructing U.S. attorney appointments; defying immigration court orders; abolishing the Department of Education; mass firing inspectors general; imposing emergency tariffs as unilateral taxes; political prosecutions; corrupt IRS settlements and pardons; attacks on the press and coercion of networks; retaliation against law firms and universities; unauthorized demolition of the White House East Wing; seizure or renaming of public institutions; and personal profiting in violation of the emoluments clause.
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