{"id":10594,"date":"2025-06-24T18:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/most-house-democrats-vote-to-kill-al-greens-impeachment-measure\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T18:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:32:56","slug":"most-house-democrats-vote-to-kill-al-greens-impeachment-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/most-house-democrats-vote-to-kill-al-greens-impeachment-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Most House Democrats vote to kill Al Green&#8217;s impeachment measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Most House Democrats joined with Republicans on Tuesday to quash an effort to impeach President Donald Trump over his weekend Iran strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Al Green\u2019s impeachment resolution was tabled on a 344-79 vote, with 128 Democrats joining all 216 Republicans to kill the measure. <\/p>\n<p>Those included House Democratic leaders, who have been wary of pursuing new impeachments after two prior Trump impeachments failed during his first term. Still, dozens of Democrats voted to keep Green&#8217;s resolution alive. <\/p>\n<p>Green introduced the measure lambasting Trump for striking Iran without congressional approval Tuesday and used a fast-track process to force a quick vote. GOP leaders moved first with the motion to table.<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats \u2014 most prominently New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AOC\/status\/1936600627221565468\" target=\"_blank\">called for Trump\u2019s impeachment<\/a> in the aftermath of the strike, though there\u2019s little appetite in the rest of the caucus for impeachment. Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/14\/congress\/thanedar-pulls-impeachment-vote-00350361\" target=\"_blank\">yanked a prior impeachment measure he sponsored<\/a> last month before it even came up for a vote after facing fierce blowback in the caucus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most House Democrats joined with Republicans on Tuesday to quash an effort to impeach President Donald Trump over his weekend Iran strikes. Rep. Al Green\u2019s impeachment resolution was tabled on a 344-79 vote, with 128 Democrats joining all 216 Republicans to kill the measure. Those included House Democratic leaders, who have been wary of pursuing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}