HOUSE DEM LOOKS TO MOVE FORWARD ON IMPEACHMENT

Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, said Monday that he would move forward in the next two weeks on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, saying “the American people are fed up” with his racism and bigotry.

Green, who filed articles of impeachment in 2017 and has threatened for months to try again, said things “came to a boiling point” with Trump’s weekend tweets as well as his handling of the crisis along the southern U.S. border.

“To tolerate bigotry when you can do something about bigotry is to perpetuate it,” Green said in an interview Monday. “I will not tolerate the level of bigotry emanating from the president, especially in policy.”

The House voted 364 to 58 in December 2017, with Republicans in the majority, on a motion to table Green’s previous impeachment push. Green said Monday that things have changed: “I have had enough. I believe a good many of my colleagues have had enough. We’ll find out how many. And I think the American people are fed up with this behavior ... This is the only place, by the way, where the president can be checked. There’s no other place.”

Green’s announcement threatens to complicate House Democratic leaders’ plans for July, including the much-anticipated July 24 testimony of former special counsel Robert Mueller. While more than 80 House Democrats have called for an impeachment inquiry based on Mueller’s report and other factors, many more have withheld judgment.