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Democrats introduce impeachment articles against Trump and Hegseth as nearly 100 lawmakers call for 25th Amendment
Alex Woodward
Updated Wed, April 8, 2026
Democratic members of Congress have filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over threats to Iran and alleged war crimes.
Democratic members of Congress have filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth while nearly 100 congressional Democrats are calling for the president’s removal from office over his threats to Iran.
Rep. John Larson of Connecticut has filed 13 articles of impeachment against Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors, including the president’s “criminal lawlessness” that has “invited blowback against the United States and its citizens risking 9/11 2.0.”
The congressman accuses Trump of a “serial usurpation of the congressional war power” and “commission of murder, war crimes and piracy” with attacks in Iran, Venezuela and in international waters against alleged drug-running boats and elsewhere.
His proposal also accuses the president of illegally militarizing law enforcement and surging immigration officers into U.S. cities to unlawfully detain and deport “citizens or immigrants based significantly on race or ethnicity or political opposition.”
“Donald Trump has blown past every requirement to be removed from office. And it’s getting worse,” Larson said in a statement.
Two House Democrats have filed articles of impeachment against Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth over the Iran war (REUTERS)
“His illegal war in Iran is not only driving up prices for American families — it has cost American lives,” he added. “He’s becoming more unstable by the day.”
The congressman’s proposal was drafted by consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader and constitutional law scholar Bruce Fein, who called the war “flagrantly unconstitutional” in The American Conservative this week.
“Trump’s attack on Iran in partnership with Israel was not in self-defense. It is a criminal war of aggression, plain and simple, including a violation of the United Nations Charter,” wrote Fein as he urged Congress to “do its job” and swiftly block spending and troop deployment.
White House spokesman Davis Ingle called Larson’s proposal “pathetic.”
“Democrats have been talking about impeaching President Trump since before he was even sworn into office,” he told The Independent. “The Democrats in Congress are deranged, weak, and ineffective, which is why their approval ratings are at historic lows.”
Larson’s articles of impeachment follow similar legislation targeting Hegseth.
The proposal from Democratic Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari, who is the daughter of Iranian immigrants and the first Democratic member of Congress of Iranian descent, accuses Hegseth of “repeatedly violating his oath of office and his duty to the Constitution.”
“Only Congress has the power to declare war, not a rogue president or his lackeys,” she said in a statement. “Hegseth’s reckless endangerment of U.S. servicemembers and repeated war crimes, including bombing a girls’ school in Minab, Iran and willfully targeting civilian infrastructure, are grounds for impeachment and removal from office.”
Arizona Rep Yassamin Ansari says ‘reckless’ actions from Trump’s defense secretary are ‘grounds for impeachment and removal from office’ (Getty Images)
On Tuesday, less than two hours before his self-imposed deadline to begin launching attacks that he said would destroy a “whole civilization,” the president announced a two-week pause in fighting while negotiations with Iran continue.
In an Easter message, Trump told Iran to “Open the F****’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”
“The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” Trump said Monday.
The next morning, he wrote: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”
His threats drew a wave of demands from congressional Democrats for the Trump administration to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the president from office.
Several influential right-wing personalities — including Alex Jones, Candace Owens and Marjorie Taylor Green — also called on the administration to invoke the 25th Amendment, while Tucker Carlson advised military officials to reject the president’s plans.
At least 87 Democratic members of Congress, including several senators, publicly demanded Trump’s removal, according to The Independent’s review of their statements.
“Donald Trump's instability is more clear and dangerous than ever,” wrote former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “If the Cabinet is not willing to invoke the 25th Amendment and restore sanity, Republicans must reconvene the Congress to end this war.”
More than 80 Democratic members of Congress are calling on Vice President JD Vance and members of Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare him unfit for office (REUTERS)
The 25th Amendment, which provides for the line of presidential succession, allows for the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to declare the president unfit to serve.
Rep. Jasmine Crocket wrote a letter to Vice President JD Vance, claiming that the president is “deranged, likely suffering from dementia, and has now brought the United States to the precipice of committing one of the largest war crimes in modern history.”
“The United States now stands isolated as the world awaits whether America will brazenly commit genocide or whether the Vice President, the Cabinet, and the Congress will put an end to the chaos caused by a frail and likely demented American president,” she wrote.
The proposals are unlikely to go anywhere under the current Republican-controlled Congress, and the president has built his cabinet around ironclad allegiance to him.
Democratic leadership did not call on their Republican counterparts this week to bring lawmakers back to the Capitol to pass a war powers resolution to curb the president’s actions, and GOP leadership in the House and Senate are unlikely to do so when they return.
But Trump, who was impeached twice in his first administration, has publicly mused about his potential impeachment if Republicans lose control of both chambers after midterm elections this fall.
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Calls to invoke the 25th Amendment grow after Trump threatened to destroy 'whole civilization' in Iran. How does it work, and has it been used before?
Kate Murphy, Reporter
Updated Wed, April 8, 2026
Dozens of congressional lawmakers have called upon Vice President JD Vance and members of President Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment against the president to forcibly remove him from office. The calls were in response to Trump’s threat to destroy a “whole civilization” if Iran didn’t succumb to a deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil shipping channel.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday morning. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” Hours later, Trump announced that the U.S. and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire, conditional on Tehran reopening the strait.
More than 80 House Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York, Rashida Tlaib from Michigan and Ilhan Omar from Minnesota, as well as two Democratic Senators, Ed Markey from Massachusetts and Ron Wyden from Oregon, reportedly called for Trump’s ouster, either through impeachment or the 25th Amendment.
“This is not ok. Invoke the 25th amendment. Impeach. Remove. This unhinged lunatic must be removed from office,” Omar wrote about the threat on X.
Some former conservative allies of the president, including former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia, also joined in the calls to remove Trump from office.
“25TH AMENDMENT!!!,” Greene wrote on X. “Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.”
In January, several lawmakers called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked after Trump doubled down on his intention to “purchase” Greenland. He blamed the Norwegian government for his failure to win the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded by the independent Norwegian Nobel Committee, and said he no longer felt obligated to “think purely of Peace.”
How did the 25th Amendment originate?
It dates back to 1963, when Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. There was no plan in place to choose Johnson’s replacement, and there was concern about the process that would follow if he were to become ill or incapacitated before a new vice president could be named. In 1965, Congress formally proposed the 25th Amendment, and it became part of the Constitution in February 1967.
The 25th Amendment has four sections. The first three clarify the presidential order of succession and who can temporarily assume the president’s duties. Section 4 gets the most attention: it’s a multi-step process for the vice president and the Cabinet to declare that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
How would it work?
Invoking Section 4 of the 25th Amendment would require Vice President JD Vance and the majority of Trump’s Cabinet to submit a declaration to Congress that Trump isn’t able to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Doing so would mean an immediate transfer of presidential power to Vance, who would serve as acting president. Trump would have the chance to refute the declaration, which could then be challenged by his Cabinet. Congress would have 21 days from the date of receiving the declaration to formally approve any decision to remove Trump from office.
A two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate would be needed in order for Trump to be removed from office. Otherwise, he would regain his presidential powers.
Has the 25th Amendment been used before?
The first section of the 25th Amendment was invoked when Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency in 1974 and was replaced by his vice president, Gerald Ford. Section 2 was used when Gerald Ford, as president, nominated Nelson Rockefeller for vice president, and he was confirmed in the House and the Senate.
Section 3 was used in 1985 when Ronald Reagan underwent brief cancer surgery, and Vice President George H.W. Bush assumed his responsibilities. In 2002 and 2007, George W. Bush invoked Section 3 when he underwent medical procedures, and then-Vice President Dick Cheney became acting president.
Section 4 has never been used because the process is so challenging. It’s more difficult to remove a president under the 25th Amendment using Section 4 than under the impeachment process.
What’s the difference between impeachment and invoking the 25th Amendment?
The purpose of seeking impeachment to remove a president from office is to address potential “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
The House would require a simple majority to vote on Articles of Impeachment, which are formal written charges against a president. After a trial, the Senate would vote on whether to convict and remove the president from office, which requires a two-thirds vote. The Senate can vote in a separate proceeding to ban the president from holding future office, which would require a simple majority vote.
Trump was impeached twice during his first term in office. The first time was on December 18, 2019, for initiating foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election, and the second was on January 13, 2021, following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In each case, he was acquitted on all counts by the Senate and remained in office.
Should the movement grow to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump due to incapacity or inability to perform presidential duties, invoking it would require a two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate. The president would not be barred from holding future office.
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