Rep. Al Green stood before the House once again, making yet another attempt to impeach Donald Trump—his first in 2025, but certainly not his first overall. For a man who had already spent years pushing impeachment efforts, it was a familiar, almost ritualistic affair, though this time, his own party seemed more weary than inspired.
Green spoke with passion, declaring that “ethnic cleansing in Gaza is not a joke, especially when it emanates from the President of the United States.” His words were heavy, his conviction clear. And yet, the room’s response was lukewarm at best.
He went on, condemning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and decrying what he called Trump’s “dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done.” The charge sounded grave, urgent. But for all its weight, it felt like a speech that had been given too many times before.
Trump’s latest move—announcing that the U.S. would “take over” Gaza and relocate Palestinians while rebuilding it—was, unsurprisingly, a flashpoint. And yet, as Green rallied once again for impeachment, the response from his own colleagues was a familiar mix of politeness and distance.
“It’s not a focus of our caucus,” Democratic House Caucus Chair Peter Aguilar said flatly. No outrage. No rallying cries. Just a dismissive shrug from his own party.
Green, undeterred, declared that impeachment would come from the ground up, not from party leadership. “I did it before, I laid the foundation for impeachment, and it was done. Nobody knows more about it than I.”
And therein lay the problem. It was done before. Several times. To what end?
Green had led impeachment efforts long before Trump’s first actual impeachment in 2019. He had filed a resolution over a Trump tweet. He had once admitted that he feared failing to impeach Trump would result in his reelection—an admission that, years later, Republicans had gleefully immortalized as proof that impeachment had always been a political maneuver, not a moral imperative.
The Democrats had moved forward with impeachment before, with Adam Schiff and others leading the charge when they believed the moment was right. And yet, here was Green again, taking up the mantle alone, insisting he would lay the foundation one more time.
But the foundation was cracked. The urgency had faded. And the party he once led into battle seemed exhausted by the fight.
If nothing else, Green’s relentless conviction was undeniable. But as he stood alone in the House, fighting once more for an impeachment few seemed eager to support, it was hard not to wonder:
Was this a cause still worth fighting for, or had the moment passed him by?
