H.Res. 1155 — Impeaching Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

This section exhibits articles of impeachment by the House of Representatives against Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors in violation of his constitutional oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

This section declares that President Donald J. Trump has usurped the congressional war power under article I, section 8, clause 11 of the Constitution by initiating war against drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, committing war crimes in violation of the War Crimes Act of 1996, blockading Venezuela, and committing piracy on the high seas and coastal waters by theft of Venezuelan oil.

This section declares that President Trump has unconstitutionally initiated war as a belligerent or co-belligerent against Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Nigeria, and Gaza and has threatened military force against Panama, Colombia, Cuba, and Greenland without constitutionally required congressional authorization.

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This section declares that Donald J. Trump has acted contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government through serial usurpation of the congressional war power and commission of murder, war crimes, and piracy, to the great prejudice of law, liberty, and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

This section states that President Donald J. Trump has declared national emergencies and called members and units of the National Guard into federal service in Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, Washington, DC, and elsewhere under section 12406 of title 10, United States Code, on the basis that regular forces are unable to execute the laws of the United States, and that such actions are intended to intimidate U.S. citizens from engaging in peaceful protest protected by the First Amendment.

This section declares that Donald J. Trump has acted contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of law, liberty, and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

This section finds that President Donald J. Trump has violated his constitutional duty to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution by illegally detaining, deporting, or attempting to deport citizens and immigrants based significantly on race, ethnicity, or political opposition. The section states that these actions have affected hundreds of thousands or millions of individuals, including Haitians, Somalis, and Venezuelans legally present in the United States, and that the President has deported individuals to a facility in El Salvador in violation of due process and court orders. It further states that the President improperly invoked the Alien Enemies Act on the predicate that Venezuela has initiated war against the United States, contrary to the Supreme Court’s holding in A.A.R.P. v. Trump, 605 U.S. ___ (May 16, 2025).

This section charges President Donald J. Trump with suppressing or retaliating against constitutionally protected speech opposed to his policies, in violation of his constitutional duty to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

This section provides findings that on January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive order entitled Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship and has fired or demoted Federal Bureau of Investigation agents or Department of Justice lawyers who worked on the January 6 investigation or other Federal criminal investigations or prosecutions of President Trump because of political opinions or lack of loyalty unrelated to job qualifications or performance.

This section references the Executive order issued by President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025, titled Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.

This section declares that an executive order undermines critical thinking in higher education and quotes the Supreme Court's opinion in Sweezy v. New Hampshire, 354 U.S. 234 (1957), on the need for academic freedom to allow teachers and students to inquire, study, and evaluate without suspicion or distrust.

This section states that President Donald J. Trump issued pardons or commutations on January 20, 2025, to more than 1,500 individuals for offenses relating to the January 6, 2021, events at the United States Capitol, in violation of his constitutional duties to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. The section further states that the recipients included individuals who had committed crimes such as child sexual assault, production of child pornography, rape, conspiracy to murder Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, kidnapping, and domestic violence by strangulation, and describes them as insurrectionists who sought by force and violence to overturn the 2020 presidential election, including by aiming to hang Vice President Mike Pence.

This section finds that there is a credible risk that President Donald J. Trump will order officers of the United States or private parties to commit crimes, including assassinations, that benefit him politically or personally, and that he will promise preemptive pardons for such acts. This section also references an April 12, 2019, New York Times report that President Trump instructed the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Kevin McAleenan, to block asylum seekers and pledged to pardon him if he faced jail time.

This section establishes findings that President Donald J. Trump pardoned scores of campaign donors or political supporters convicted of financial fraud or drug trafficking, including former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence for smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

This section declares that President Donald J. Trump has violated his constitutional duty to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and to take care that the laws be faithfully executed by systematically crippling or dismantling agencies or programs protecting consumers, the needy, workers, and the environment, thereby impairing the health, safety, welfare, and livelihoods of tens of millions of Americans, including through the indiscriminate firing of Federal employees and the withholding of Federal funds contrary to the Impoundment Control Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.

This section charges President Donald J. Trump with violating his constitutional duty to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and to take care that the laws be faithfully executed by refusing to spend funds appropriated by Congress, expending funds not appropriated by Congress, diverting earmarked funds to advance contrary purposes, and using private funds for government purposes such as a White House ballroom, thereby circumventing the congressional power of the purse under article I, section 9, clause 7 of the Constitution, the Impoundment Control Act, and the Anti-Deficiency Act.

This section finds that Donald J. Trump has resisted congressional oversight by refusing to disclose information or provide testimony necessary to deter lawlessness and mismanagement or to decide whether new laws should be enacted or amended or old laws should be repealed. The section identifies as examples the refusal to share a video showing the murder of two civilians who survived an initial strike against alleged drug traffickers off the coast of Venezuela and Epstein File documents classified to conceal wrongdoing or prevent political embarrassment.

This section states that President Donald J. Trump has violated his constitutional duties by stripping lawyers or law firms of security clearances and initiating retaliatory investigations or prosecutions against political opponents and critics, including former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Senator Adam Schiff, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan, while ordering the dismissal of the indictment against former New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

This section asserts that Donald J. Trump, in his conduct of the office of President of the United States, violated his constitutional duty to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and to take care that the laws be executed.

This section states that on January 24, 2025, President Trump discharged at least 17 Inspectors General under the Inspectors General Act of 1978 without providing Congress the required 30-day notice and substantive reason for the removals.

This section provides that the President has eschewed any limiting principle preventing refusal to enforce laws enacted by Congress, thereby rendering legislative power ineffective and the United States Code advisory only.

This section states that President Donald J. Trump violated his constitutional duties by issuing an executive order on January 20, 2025, entitled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, that denies birthright citizenship to certain children born in the United States subject to the jurisdiction thereof, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark.

This section finds that President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order on January 20, 2025, entitled Declaring a National Energy Emergency, for the purpose of evading federal laws governing the production, transmission, or export of energy, in violation of his constitutional duties, and that no credible evidence supports the existence of a national energy emergency.

This section declares a national emergency at the southern border of the United States on January 20, 2025, characterizing unauthorized immigration through the border with Mexico as a military invasion under Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, and indefinitely suspends physical entry by any alien presumed to be an invader, subject to a military response.

This section states that on January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive order designating cartels and other organizations as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists. This section further provides that drug cartels do not meet the statutory definition of a foreign terrorist organization under section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)) and that the Venezuelan Government has been listed as a foreign terrorist organization.

This section finds that President Donald J. Trump violated the domestic and foreign emoluments clauses by refusing to divest from direct or indirect financial interests in business ventures that exploit his position to solicit patronage from Americans or foreigners in exchange for political favors.

This section declares that Donald J. Trump has acted contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of law, liberty, and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.