Al Green introduces more articles of impeachment against Trump

Al Green has introduced articles of impeachment so many times now that it barely registers as news anymore. This latest round targets ICE and CBP enforcement, which tells you everything about where the goalposts have moved. It's not a scandal, not a cover-up, not some abuse of a specific power for personal gain. It's the president directing federal agencies to enforce federal immigration law. That used to be called doing the job.

What's remarkable is the casualness of it. Impeachment was supposed to be the nuclear option, reserved for genuine constitutional crises. Green has turned it into a recurring press release, something he rolls out whenever he wants a headline or a fundraising bump. Each time it goes nowhere, and each time it costs a little more of the word's meaning. When the next real constitutional crisis actually arrives, and someday one will, this kind of stunt will make it that much harder for anyone to take the charge seriously.

There's also something telling about which part of the administration draws this reaction. Not a foreign policy blunder, not a spending fight, but immigration enforcement itself, the actual mechanics of border security that voters have been begging Washington to take seriously for decades. Green isn't accusing Trump of breaking the law. He's accusing him of enforcing it too effectively. That's not a legal argument. That's a policy disagreement dressed up in constitutional language because the ballot box didn't give Democrats the answer they wanted.

None of this will go anywhere in the House, and everyone involved knows it. But it does something else quietly: it trains half the country to treat impeachment as background noise, a partisan reflex rather than a last resort. That's not a healthy habit for a republic to get into, no matter who sits in the Oval Office next.