What specific articles of impeachment have been drafted against Donald Trump in the 119th Congress?
Executive summary
Multiple members of the 119th Congress have filed distinct articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump; those filings are separate resolutions that allege overlapping but not identical constitutional violations, ranging from abuse of power and incitement of violence to bribery, obstruction, and efforts to usurp Congress’s appropriations and war powers [1] [2] [3] [4]. Some drafts have seven enumerated articles; others focus more narrowly on threats to the judiciary and calls for violence—these are individual members’ resolutions, some of which have seen procedural movement in the House [2] [3] [4] [5].
1. Major filed resolutions and their sponsors
At least three distinct sets of articles were filed in the 119th Congress: H.Res.353 (a seven-article resolution that lists seven separate grounds for impeachment), H.Res.415 (an article or set of articles framed around “devolving democracy into authoritarianism” and attacks on the judiciary), and H.Res.537/H.Res.939 (filed by Rep. Al Green and focused on abuse of power and threats to lawmakers and judges) [2] [3] [1] [6] [7].
2. The seven-article blueprint (H.Res.353 and similar drafts)
Congressional filings described as containing seven discrete articles allege broad constitutional violations: obstruction of justice/violation of due process and failure to faithfully execute the laws; usurpation of Congress’s appropriations power; abuse of trade powers and international aggression; violations of First Amendment rights; creation of an unlawful office; bribery and corruption; and tyranny—language found in the text and summaries of H.Res.353 and companion materials introduced in the 119th [2] [8] [9].
3. Abuse of power, threats to lawmakers and judges (H.Res.537 / H.Res.939)
Representative Al Green’s filings (appearing as H.Res.537 in congressional text and H.Res.939 as a submitted resolution) emphasize abusive rhetoric and conduct that, the resolutions allege, foment violence and intimidate the judiciary—explicitly citing calls for execution of lawmakers and public calls to impeach or remove judges as impeachable abuses of presidential power [1] [4] [6] [7]. Advocacy groups reported that 140 House members voted to advance Green’s articles in December 2025, indicating some procedural traction for those specific charges [5].
4. Attacks on the judiciary and separation-of-powers claims
Several of these drafts make the separation-of-powers argument central: they accuse the president of intimidating federal judges, calling for the impeachment of judges who rule against him, and otherwise undermining judicial independence—assertions repeated across H.Res.415 and H.Res.939 and cited with contemporaneous news reporting about presidential attacks on individual judges [3] [4] [10].
5. Overlap, political context, and procedural status
The existing documents on Congress.gov and congressional offices show overlapping allegations across resolutions—some focus broadly on “authoritarianism” and “tyranny,” others list concrete statutory and constitutional claims like bribery and obstruction—yet these are separate legislative texts introduced by different members or coalitions rather than a single, consolidated set of articles produced by a House majority or the Judiciary Committee [1] [2] [3] [9]. Where reporting documents a vote, it pertains to advancing specific filings (e.g., the movement of Al Green’s articles noted by advocacy groups) rather than to conviction or Senate action [5].
6. What the public record does and does not show
The public record contains the full texts or summaries of these draft resolutions—H.Res.353, H.Res.415, H.Res.537/H.Res.939 and related drafts are posted on Congress.gov and on member offices’ sites—allowing readers to examine the precise language and enumerated articles [1] [2] [3] [10] [11]. The sources do not, in the materials provided here, show a single unified set of articles adopted by the House as the definitive 119th-Congress impeachment package, nor do they show a Senate trial stemming from these particular 119th-Congress filings within the cited documents [1] [2] [5].