U.S House Rep. Al Green has recently stated that he wants racism to be part of Trump's articles of impeachment, pointing to Andrew Johnson's impeachment articles that included racism:
December 4, 2019
One of the first House Democrats to call for President Trump's impeachment urged his colleagues on Wednesday to include instances of Trump's actions and rhetoric inflaming racial tensions in any upcoming articles of impeachment.
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) sent a memo to fellow lawmakers arguing that Trump's "impeachable racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, transphobic, xenophobic language instigating enmity and inciting violence within our society" should be taken under consideration, as he has argued since backing impeachment in 2017.
Green, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, pointed to the House passage of a resolution in July condemning Trump's tweets urging four female progressive freshman lawmakers to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."
"Why should we pass a resolution condemning the president's racist comments and then get back to racism as usual, where racism is more of a talking point than an action item?" he wrote.
Green argued that Trump's actions inflaming racial tensions should also be considered an impeachable abuse of power. He pointed to the tenth article of impeachment against former President Andrew Johnson in 1868, which cited his remarks blaming the "radical Congress" for "exciting that portion of the population, the black population, to arm themselves and prepare for the shedding of blood" in racial violence in New Orleans.
That article of impeachment stated that Johnson "has brought the high office of the President of the United States into contempt, ridicule and disgrace, to the great scandal of all good citizens" and therefore committed a high misdemeanor.
"To those who say that the House resolution condemning the President is enough, I say if impeachment is the remedy for invidious abuse of power related to Ukraine, it should be the remedy for invidious abuse of power related to racism in the United States. If impeachment was just for President Andrew Johnson's racist actions, it's just for President Donald Trump's racist actions," Green wrote.
"To those who say impeachment related to racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and transphobia 'will tear this country apart because the time isn't right for it,' I say this willingness to take the path of least resistance means turning a blind eye to those who suffer daily from hate in all of its insidious forms," he added.