What were the specific seven articles in Rep. Shri Thanedar’s April 2025 impeachment resolution and the evidence cited for each?
Executive summary
Rep. Shri Thanedar introduced seven articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on April 28–29, 2025, accusing the president of a sweeping pattern of abuses ranging from defying court orders to usurping congressional powers; Thanedar’s office published a resolution on his congressional website [1] and reporting summarized the seven items and some supporting examples [2] [3]. The move drew sharp pushback from House Democrats and was ultimately withdrawn as a forced-floor effort amid internal opposition [4].
1. Defying court orders — example: facilitating a mistaken extradition
Thanedar’s resolution accuses Trump of defying judicial orders, and reporting specifically notes Thanedar pointed to at least one incident in which the administration allegedly facilitated the return of a man to a prison in El Salvador “mistakenly” as an example of executive disregard for court processes [3]; Thanedar framed such incidents as evidence of a pattern of flouting the rule of law in his public statement [1].
2. Usurpation of Congress’s appropriation powers
Multiple outlets summarized one article as charging Trump with usurping Congress’s appropriations authority — effectively acting unilaterally on spending matters — language echoed in background reporting and in brief summaries of the articles [5] [6]; Thanedar characterized such actions as part of a “sweeping abuse of power” undermining constitutional separation of powers [6].
3. Attempting to dismantle congressionally established agencies (including Education) and unilaterally imposing tariffs
Reporting cites an article alleging Trump took steps to dismantle agencies created or funded by Congress — the Education Department is named in media summaries — and that he unilaterally instituted tariffs, which Thanedar presented as executive overreach beyond statutory authority [3]; the resolution’s text and Thanedar’s statement framed these moves as concrete examples of executive usurpation [2] [3].
4. Obstruction of justice
News accounts list obstruction as one of the charges in Thanedar’s seven-article package; outlets summarized that Thanedar accused the president of obstructing lawful processes and investigations, which the congressman positioned as a high crime or misdemeanor warranting impeachment [5] [6].
5. Abuse of power and seeking to establish autocratic rule
Thanedar explicitly argued that Trump’s words and conduct sought to “establish himself as tyrant, dictator and autocrat over the people of the United States,” a charge that reporting treats as the abuse-of-power article and that Thanedar used to tie specific policies and rhetoric to a broader threat to democracy [3] [6].
6. Bribery and corruption
Summaries of the articles list bribery and corruption among the charges Thanedar leveled, with media synthesizing that the congressman alleged transactions or conduct rising to criminal corruption as part of his rationale for impeachment [5] [6]; reporting does not reproduce full evidentiary exhibits in a single outlet but notes Thanedar’s public statement and resolution cite examples of policy and personnel decisions he says reflect corrupt motives [2] [6].
7. Additional charges summarized by media (overlap: mismanagement, constitutional violations)
News outlets and encyclopedic summaries present the seventh charge as a catch-all of constitutional violations and misconduct — including claims of reckless mismanagement of executive power that overlap with other articles — and note Thanedar’s resolution ties multiple episodes of policy and personnel decisions into that final article [1] [5].
Thanedar’s public materials are the primary source for the full text of the resolution and the specific factual claims cited in each article; his congressional web page hosts the download [2]. Media summaries (Axios, Michigan Advance, Citizen-Times, AP) list or paraphrase the seven articles and highlighted evidence such as the El Salvador case, agency-targeting, tariffs, and broad allegations of corruption and constitutional usurpation [1] [6] [3] [7]. Congressional leaders and many Democrats criticized the move as lacking party coordination or sufficient evidentiary foundation for a House-wide impeachment push, and Thanedar pulled his bid to force an immediate House vote after a group of Democrats signaled they would block it [4]. Reporting limitations: while summaries and Thanedar’s press materials outline the seven articles and cite illustrative incidents, full evidentiary appendices or an extended investigative record tied to each count were not reproduced in the outlets reviewed here, so assessment is based on Thanedar’s resolution text and contemporaneous media accounts [2] [1] [3].