Real bill currently in Congress c/o HRES/119/1486
Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Latest action (2026-08-24): Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
The Framers
“Founders’ Verdict”
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Synthesis
Unanimous among all four voices: the impeachment power itself is squarely constitutional — Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 vests the sole Power of Impeachment in the House, and Article II, Section 4 makes the President removable upon Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. However, resolution hres-119-1486 is constitutionally deficient in its present form: it recites only the general constitutional formula without annexing specific articles charging particular acts. The House may constitutionally proceed only upon articles alleging specific facts constituting treason, bribery, or genuine high crimes and misdemeanors — offenses against the constitutional order and public trust, not mere policy disagreement or maladministration (which the Convention expressly rejected). Removal cannot occur absent trial before the Senate and conviction by two-thirds of members present (Article I, Section 3, Clauses 6-7); judgment is confined to removal and disqualification, with the party remaining amenable to ordinary criminal process.
The power here invoked is among the most solemn confided to the national legislature, and its existence admits of no doubt. Article II, Section 4 declares the President removable from office upon Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors; Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 vests in the House the sole Power of Impeachment; and Article I, Section 3, Clause 6 commits the trial thereof to the Senate. Unlike the British monarch, whom no tribunal may touch, the Chief Magistrate under our Constitution is amenable to justice in his official conduct and may…
The power of impeachment is lodged in our Constitution deliberately, as the last resort of a free people against a magistrate who betrays his sacred trust. Article I, Section 2 vests in the House of Representatives the sole power of impeachment; Article II, Section 4 confines its just objects to treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors — that is, offenses against the Constitution itself, not differences of policy, opinion, or administration between the branches. A resolution declaring an intention to impeach the Chief Magistrate 'for high crimes and misdemeanors,' while enumerat…
The power here exercised is constitutional in its kind. The Constitution vests in the House of Representatives 'the sole Power of Impeachment' (Article I, Section 2, Clause 5), and Article II, Section 4 declares the President removable 'on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.' The Framers at Philadelphia deliberately lodged this check in the popular branch while requiring concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators present for conviction (Article I, Section 3, Clauses 6-7), so that no single department might dominate the removal of an offic…
The instrument before me exercises a power expressly granted, and thus its form offends no provision of the supreme law. Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 vests in the House of Representatives 'the sole Power of Impeachment,' and Article II, Section 4 declares that the President 'shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.' An impeachment resolution is therefore constitutional in its inception. Yet the Constitution does not make removal a matter of legislative will alone. Article I, Section 3, Clause 6 commits the tr…
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