The case for President Donald John Trump’s impeachment is as follows:

“Shall any man be above justice?” These immortal words of Constitutional Convention delegate George Mason became the impetus for adding high crimes and misdemeanors to the Constitution as grounds for the impeachment of a President who commits injustices harmful to the republic (society) or who, if left in office, would be a threat to the republic.

Ahead of the 2024 election, former Vice President Dick Cheney declared, “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.”.

The President is reducing American democracy to an authoritarian regime. An authoritarian regime is a system of government that has no established mechanism for the transfer of executive power and limits citizens’ civil liberties or political rights, often characterized by a leader with near absolute power, a powerful secret police force, low political trust, and little tolerance of dissent.

The President is overseeing and defending unjustified killings. An unjustified killing is a death caused by someone—often a law enforcement officer or other authorized actor—when there was no lawful reason, immediate threat, or legal justification for using deadly force, making the act unlawful under criminal or human rights standards.

The President is covering up unjustified killings. A coverup is a usually concerted effort to keep an illegal or unethical act or situation from being made public.

The United States Constitution accords the United States House of Representatives the power to impeach a President for high crimes and misdemeanors committed in violation of the President’s mandated oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the United States Constitution, codified in article II, section 1, clause 8 of the United States Constitution.

High crimes and misdemeanors need not be criminal or statutory, and are therefore not constrained by Federal criminal or civil statutes. Impeachment is a political question, as the offenses “relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself,” as determined by a majority vote of the United States House of Representatives.

High crimes and misdemeanors committed by the President of the United States and not addressed by this body (the United States House of Representatives) through its sovereign impeachment power, unconstrained by the ostensible will of the United States Senate, threaten the very fabric and survival of the United States Constitution and our democratic republic.

After having been impeached by the United States House of Representatives on January 13, 2021, under articles of impeachment in H. Res. 24, stating that Donald John Trump, “… has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law.” Dangerously, President Trump continues to be a threat to the United States, democracy, the Constitution, and the United States democratic republic if allowed to remain in office, as he has replaced those he incited to assault the Capitol with ICE and CBP.

On the first day of his second four-year term as President of the United States, he made it perspicuously clear to ICE and CBP officers that he would pardon them for breaches of Federal law by pardoning more than 1,000 persons convicted of Federal crimes associated with the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. He now continues to act in a manner “grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law” by condoning Federal investigators withholding evidence from local investigators and engaging in coverups, thereby protecting the offending officers instead of the American people.

President Trump, using the powers of his high office, individually and in coordination with officers in his administration, has transformed ICE and CBP into dangerous, unaccountable paramilitary police forces that operate without oversight and pose a direct threat to the constitutional order of the United States and the people of the United States. By such abuses of power, President Trump is brazenly and wantonly devolving the United States democratic republic into an authoritarian regime.

Under President Trump, ICE and CBP operate with impunity while armed with military-grade weapons and control vast resources provided by taxpayers to fund President Trump’s anti-democracy agenda.

President Trump has used ICE and CBP to suppress the First Amendment rights to free speech and a free press; violate the Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protections against unlawful searches and excessive force; and defy the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process and equal protection by allowing and encouraging racially targeted arrests, unjustified detentions, and unjustified killings. These unjustified killings include those of Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

President Trump, by his conduct, continues to demonstrate that he is a great threat to democracy, the United States Constitution, and the democratic republic, by dangerously flouting constitutional rights, including:

1. (1) enabling ICE and CBP to act as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner by assaulting and committing unjustified killings of people with impunity, in violation of the Fifth Amendment right to due process;
2. (2) enabling ICE and CBP to operate with anonymity and in secrecy to terrorize communities, in violation of the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fifth Amendment right to due process;
3. (3) enabling ICE and CBP to undermine civil liberties and basic freedom of speech, in violation of the First Amendment right to free speech; and
4. (4) undermining judicial oversight.

As a result, ICE and CBP, under President Trump’s authority, have been converted into his militarized secret police forces (often acting as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner) that violate and debase, instead of uphold, the rule of law by abusing and harming those they should protect, as explicated below for each of the above topics.

1. (1) ENABLING ICE AND CBP TO ACT AS JUDGE, JURY, PROSECUTOR, AND EXECUTIONER WHEN ASSAULTING AND COMMITTING UNJUSTIFIED KILLINGS WITH IMPUNITY, IN VIOLATION OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS

Under President Trump’s control and with the support and backing of senior officials in his administration, Federal immigration officers have conducted unjustified killings of civilians with impunity, including Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. The Trump administration has encouraged, condoned, and covered up these unjustified killings by protecting the shooters and spreading dangerous misinformation about the shootings and the victims while obstructing State and local investigations. Preventing local investigations, congressional oversight, and judicial accountability has enabled ICE and CBP officers to act with impunity as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.

On January 7, 2026, an ICE officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renée Nicole Good, an unarmed civilian, U.S. citizen, Minneapolis resident, wife, mother of young children, and poet. Video evidence demonstrates and witnesses confirm that she posed no threat to ICE officers when an ICE officer opened fire, shooting her three times, striking her in the head, and killing her. ICE officers failed to render any aid to Ms. Good, in violation of DHS policies, and blocked and then delayed emergency medical personnel from reaching her. This is an unjustified killing.

President Trump, directly and through senior officials in his administration, including then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, immediately began to cover up the crime and protect ICE officers from being held responsible for Ms. Good’s killing. They repeatedly lied about Ms. Good, the ICE officers’ actions, and the events surrounding the shooting, all of which are refuted by witnesses and video evidence of the event. The Trump administration, by and through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), blocked Minnesota law enforcement from gaining access to materials and evidence related to the shooting, and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) refused to investigate the killing. Instead, the FBI and DOJ tried to force employees to investigate Ms. Good’s widow, which prompted a wave of resignations. On January 7, 2026, President Trump issued the following statement on Truth Social:

“I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP..

The above statement is proof of President Trump’s enabling of a coverup and condoning of an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a Federal immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.

On January 24, 2026, Federal immigration officers killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, when he was part of a small group of approximately fifteen peaceful protesters. Video and witness accounts demonstrate that immediately before the shooting, a Federal officer shoved a female observer standing next to Mr. Pretti. When Mr. Pretti moved between the officer and the woman he had assaulted, the officer sprayed Mr. Pretti with a chemical agent and pulled him to his knees. At least six other officers then surrounded Mr. Pretti, pushed him to the ground, and took possession of Mr. Pretti’s gun. Officers then shot Mr. Pretti at least nine times, killing him. As with the unjustified killing of Ms. Good, the Federal officers did not provide medical aid. Although Mr. Pretti was armed—with a gun he was legally licensed to carry—he never brandished it at any point during the encounter, despite being assaulted physically, including with chemical agents, and a Federal officer had control of Mr. Pretti’s weapon when he was killed.

President Trump, once again, directly and through senior officials in his administration, including then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, attempted to cover up the crime, protect the ICE officers who killed Mr. Pretti, and spread dangerous and demonstrably false disinformation about Mr. Pretti, the protest, and his unjustified killing. On January 30, 2026, President Trump issued the following statement on Truth Social:

“Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces. It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”.

The above statement is further proof of President Trump’s enabling of a coverup and condoning of an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a Federal immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.

On July 7, 2026, an ICE officer shot and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, an undocumented immigrant who had lived and worked in the United States for nearly 35 years and was the father of three U.S. citizens, as he drove his construction crew to a Houston job site. Federal officers in two unmarked SUVs drove erratically to follow Mr. Araujo, including by driving on the wrong side of the street toward Mr. Araujo’s vehicle. After blocking Mr. Araujo’s vehicle, Federal officers—none of whom were wearing body cameras—committed the unjustified killing of Mr. Araujo, who was unarmed and not a target of an investigation, and arrested the surviving passengers. Three witnesses have stated that the ICE officials shot at Mr. Araujo soon after they exited their vehicle and that Mr. Araujo never drove the vehicle toward the unmarked SUVs or the ICE officers. A spokesperson for DHS, echoing false claims it has made repeatedly, including to justify the killing of Ms. Good, claimed that they shot Mr. Araujo because he rammed an ICE vehicle, a claim not supported by video evidence and contradicted by witnesses. Federal officials took Mr. Araujo’s belongings and sent him to the hospital as a John Doe. His sons had to learn about his death by seeing video footage of their father dying in the street where he was shot.

DOJ and DHS, acting under the authority and control of President Trump, have refused to cooperate with local investigations, refused to disclose the names of the perpetrators, claimed the officers involved acted in self-defense, and are painting Mr. Araujo as an aggressor before any investigation has been completed. These self-defense claims are not supported by available video evidence and are contradicted by witnesses. Federal officials also publicly insinuated that Mr. Araujo was involved in narcotics activity by highlighting the discovery of a “crystal-like substance” in his vehicle. Subsequent laboratory testing confirmed that the substance was not an illicit drug, disproving those suggestions.

This too is an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a Federal immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.

On July 13, 2026, ICE officers killed Mr. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, an unarmed man, in Biddeford, Maine, during yet another purported traffic stop in which the victim posed no threat to the ICE officers who gunned him down. DHS claims that it was surveilling the last-known address of someone with a final order of removal, followed someone who left that residence, and then, when that person drove away in the vehicle, the officer, “fearing for public safety,” shot and killed Mr. Guerrero, while his wife watched from their apartment building window. In fact, ICE officers were looking for someone else; Mr. Guerrero had work authorization, was a husband, and was the father of a three-year-old daughter who had to see her father lying dead in the street after being gunned down by ICE officers.

This too is an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a Federal immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.

Though DHS briefly ceased non-urgent traffic stops after its officers unjustifiably killed two people within a single week, President Trump swiftly announced his support for DHS policies that have resulted in the brutal killing of civilians, via a social media post: “The men and women of ICE are doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done. We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” President Trump continued to condone unjustified killings by ICE and CBP officials.

1. (2) ENABLING ICE AND CBP TO OPERATE WITH ANONYMITY AND SECRECY TO TERRORIZE COMMUNITIES, IN VIOLATION OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT PROTECTION AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES AND THE FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS

Under President Trump’s control, ICE and CBP officers hide their identities by wearing masks and other face coverings, failing to wear identifying uniforms, refusing to provide their names and badge numbers, and entering homes without warrants. Through government-sanctioned anonymity, officers evade accountability to the public, elected officials, and the courts. Under President Trump’s direction, his administration has actively refused to cooperate with and has intentionally hampered State investigations into abuses by Federal officers, withholding important evidence to shield officers from scrutiny for unjustified killings in Minnesota, Texas, and Maine. The masks worn by officers also inspire fear and instill terror in their victims and the communities in which the officers operate. As Judge William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts explained: “ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence. … [M]asks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”.

1. (3) ENABLING ICE AND CBP TO UNDERMINE CIVIL LIBERTIES AND BASIC FREEDOM OF SPEECH, IN VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH

With President Trump’s express support and encouragement, ICE and CBP have targeted and unconstitutionally arrested pro-Palestinian students and academics without an adequate legal basis in violation of their First Amendment right to free speech, including Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Öztürk, Mohsen Mahdawi, and Badar Khan Suri, among others.

Under President Trump’s command, ICE and CBP are operating with impunity to carry out mass, unlawful arrests; illegally imprison people; illegally remove them from the country; and commit violent crimes against people in an effort to terrorize and silence the American people. In addition to conducting the unjustified killings of civilians, including Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, ICE and CBP, as part of their normal course of activity, have violently assaulted individuals, used unnecessary force, smashed car windows, and abducted and disappeared individuals.

1. (4) UNDERMINING JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT BY FLOUTING THE SEPARATION OF POWERS

President Trump, directly and through officials within his administration, has abused his power by shielding ICE and CBP officers from judicial oversight. These agencies have detained and removed individuals despite court orders blocking their removal from the country. Specifically, though not exhaustively, ICE deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador against a court order due to an administrative error, and then President Trump and his administration refused to facilitate his return for several months in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court order. ICE also deported about 250 Venezuelan men to El Salvador without due process, directly disobeying an emergency order from a Federal judge. In a conversation with El Salvador’s president, President Trump suggested detaining and sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons: “The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns.”.

With the support and backing of President Trump and senior officials in his administration, officers and other agency employees have refused to cooperate with and have actively undermined State and local investigations into misconduct by ICE officers. Federal officials have undertaken baseless public investigations into the victims and the victims’ families; they have made official (but false) assurances that ICE officers are immune from prosecution; and pursuant to President Trump’s authority, both the FBI and the DOJ have not prosecuted crimes committed by ICE and CBP officers. Furthermore, ICE has blatantly disregarded court orders to release or refrain from moving detainees, again with President Trump’s knowledge and pursuant to his orders and authority.

The Trump administration acknowledged violating New Jersey Federal judges’ orders more than 50 times over the course of 10 weeks in deportation-related cases. Minnesota’s chief Federal judge, Patrick J. Schiltz, detailed in a ruling that ICE violated nearly 100 court orders and had disobeyed more judicial directives in January 2026 alone than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.” A Reuters review of court records found that hundreds of judges have ruled that the Trump administration has unlawfully detained immigrants more than 4,400 times since October 2025, and Politico compiled a database of at least 15,000 rulings against the administration since July 2025; yet, the administration continues to jail people indefinitely.

In all of this, President Donald John Trump has violated the article II, section 1, clause 8-mandated Presidential oath of office to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States; has abused the powers of the Presidency by committing high crimes and misdemeanors, in a manner contrary to his trust as President; has detrimentally flouted the United States Constitution by operating vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary forces killing people (including Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero); and is now even closer to brazenly and wantonly devolving the United States democratic republic into an authoritarian regime, where, if left in office, unjustified killings of people and coverups by ICE and CBP are normalized to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

The case for President Donald John Trump’s impeachment is as follows:

“Shall any man be above justice?” These immortal words of Constitutional Convention delegate George Mason became the impetus for adding high crimes and misdemeanors to the Constitution as grounds for the impeachment of a President who commits injustices harmful to the republic (society) or who, if left in office, would be a threat to the republic.

Ahead of the 2024 election, former Vice President Dick Cheney declared, “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.”.

The President is reducing American democracy to an authoritarian regime. An authoritarian regime is a system of government that has no established mechanism for the transfer of executive power and limits citizens’ civil liberties or political rights, often characterized by a leader with near absolute power, a powerful secret police force, low political trust, and little tolerance of dissent.

The President is overseeing and defending unjustified killings. An unjustified killing is a death caused by someone—often a law enforcement officer or other authorized actor—when there was no lawful reason, immediate threat, or legal justification for using deadly force, making the act unlawful under criminal or human rights standards.

The President is covering up unjustified killings. A coverup is a usually concerted effort to keep an illegal or unethical act or situation from being made public.

The United States Constitution accords the United States House of Representatives the power to impeach a President for high crimes and misdemeanors committed in violation of the President’s mandated oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the United States Constitution, codified in article II, section 1, clause 8 of the United States Constitution.

High crimes and misdemeanors need not be criminal or statutory, and are therefore not constrained by Federal criminal or civil statutes. Impeachment is a political question, as the offenses “relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself,” as determined by a majority vote of the United States House of Representatives.

High crimes and misdemeanors committed by the President of the United States and not addressed by this body (the United States House of Representatives) through its sovereign impeachment power, unconstrained by the ostensible will of the United States Senate, threaten the very fabric and survival of the United States Constitution and our democratic republic.

After having been impeached by the United States House of Representatives on January 13, 2021, under articles of impeachment in H. Res. 24, stating that Donald John Trump, “… has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law.” Dangerously, President Trump continues to be a threat to the United States, democracy, the Constitution, and the United States democratic republic if allowed to remain in office, as he has replaced those he incited to assault the Capitol with ICE and CBP.

On the first day of his second four-year term as President of the United States, he made it perspicuously clear to ICE and CBP officers that he would pardon them for breaches of Federal law by pardoning more than 1,000 persons convicted of Federal crimes associated with the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. He now continues to act in a manner “grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law” by condoning Federal investigators withholding evidence from local investigators and engaging in coverups, thereby protecting the offending officers instead of the American people.

President Trump, using the powers of his high office, individually and in coordination with officers in his administration, has transformed ICE and CBP into dangerous, unaccountable paramilitary police forces that operate without oversight and pose a direct threat to the constitutional order of the United States and the people of the United States. By such abuses of power, President Trump is brazenly and wantonly devolving the United States democratic republic into an authoritarian regime.

Under President Trump, ICE and CBP operate with impunity while armed with military-grade weapons and control vast resources provided by taxpayers to fund President Trump’s anti-democracy agenda.

President Trump has used ICE and CBP to suppress the First Amendment rights to free speech and a free press; violate the Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protections against unlawful searches and excessive force; and defy the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process and equal protection by allowing and encouraging racially targeted arrests, unjustified detentions, and unjustified killings. These unjustified killings include those of Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

President Trump, by his conduct, continues to demonstrate that he is a great threat to democracy, the United States Constitution, and the democratic republic, by dangerously flouting constitutional rights, including:

1. (1) enabling ICE and CBP to act as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner by assaulting and committing unjustified killings of people with impunity, in violation of the Fifth Amendment right to due process;
2. (2) enabling ICE and CBP to operate with anonymity and in secrecy to terrorize communities, in violation of the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fifth Amendment right to due process;
3. (3) enabling ICE and CBP to undermine civil liberties and basic freedom of speech, in violation of the First Amendment right to free speech; and
4. (4) undermining judicial oversight.

As a result, ICE and CBP, under President Trump’s authority, have been converted into his militarized secret police forces (often acting as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner) that violate and debase, instead of uphold, the rule of law by abusing and harming those they should protect, as explicated below for each of the above topics.

1. (1) ENABLING ICE AND CBP TO ACT AS JUDGE, JURY, PROSECUTOR, AND EXECUTIONER WHEN ASSAULTING AND COMMITTING UNJUSTIFIED KILLINGS WITH IMPUNITY, IN VIOLATION OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS

Under President Trump’s control and with the support and backing of senior officials in his administration, Federal immigration officers have conducted unjustified killings of civilians with impunity, including Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. The Trump administration has encouraged, condoned, and covered up these unjustified killings by protecting the shooters and spreading dangerous misinformation about the shootings and the victims while obstructing State and local investigations. Preventing local investigations, congressional oversight, and judicial accountability has enabled ICE and CBP officers to act with impunity as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.

On January 7, 2026, an ICE officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renée Nicole Good, an unarmed civilian, U.S. citizen, Minneapolis resident, wife, mother of young children, and poet. Video evidence demonstrates and witnesses confirm that she posed no threat to ICE officers when an ICE officer opened fire, shooting her three times, striking her in the head, and killing her. ICE officers failed to render any aid to Ms. Good, in violation of DHS policies, and blocked and then delayed emergency medical personnel from reaching her. This is an unjustified killing.

President Trump, directly and through senior officials in his administration, including then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, immediately began to cover up the crime and protect ICE officers from being held responsible for Ms. Good’s killing. They repeatedly lied about Ms. Good, the ICE officers’ actions, and the events surrounding the shooting, all of which are refuted by witnesses and video evidence of the event. The Trump administration, by and through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), blocked Minnesota law enforcement from gaining access to materials and evidence related to the shooting, and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) refused to investigate the killing. Instead, the FBI and DOJ tried to force employees to investigate Ms. Good’s widow, which prompted a wave of resignations. On January 7, 2026, President Trump issued the following statement on Truth Social:

“I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP..

The above statement is proof of President Trump’s enabling of a coverup and condoning of an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a Federal immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.

On January 24, 2026, Federal immigration officers killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, when he was part of a small group of approximately fifteen peaceful protesters. Video and witness accounts demonstrate that immediately before the shooting, a Federal officer shoved a female observer standing next to Mr. Pretti. When Mr. Pretti moved between the officer and the woman he had assaulted, the officer sprayed Mr. Pretti with a chemical agent and pulled him to his knees. At least six other officers then surrounded Mr. Pretti, pushed him to the ground, and took possession of Mr. Pretti’s gun. Officers then shot Mr. Pretti at least nine times, killing him. As with the unjustified killing of Ms. Good, the Federal officers did not provide medical aid. Although Mr. Pretti was armed—with a gun he was legally licensed to carry—he never brandished it at any point during the encounter, despite being assaulted physically, including with chemical agents, and a Federal officer had control of Mr. Pretti’s weapon when he was killed.

President Trump, once again, directly and through senior officials in his administration, including then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, attempted to cover up the crime, protect the ICE officers who killed Mr. Pretti, and spread dangerous and demonstrably false disinformation about Mr. Pretti, the protest, and his unjustified killing. On January 30, 2026, President Trump issued the following statement on Truth Social:

“Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces. It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”.

The above statement is further proof of President Trump’s enabling of a coverup and condoning of an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a Federal immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.

On July 7, 2026, an ICE officer shot and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, an undocumented immigrant who had lived and worked in the United States for nearly 35 years and was the father of three U.S. citizens, as he drove his construction crew to a Houston job site. Federal officers in two unmarked SUVs drove erratically to follow Mr. Araujo, including by driving on the wrong side of the street toward Mr. Araujo’s vehicle. After blocking Mr. Araujo’s vehicle, Federal officers—none of whom were wearing body cameras—committed the unjustified killing of Mr. Araujo, who was unarmed and not a target of an investigation, and arrested the surviving passengers. Three witnesses have stated that the ICE officials shot at Mr. Araujo soon after they exited their vehicle and that Mr. Araujo never drove the vehicle toward the unmarked SUVs or the ICE officers. A spokesperson for DHS, echoing false claims it has made repeatedly, including to justify the killing of Ms. Good, claimed that they shot Mr. Araujo because he rammed an ICE vehicle, a claim not supported by video evidence and contradicted by witnesses. Federal officials took Mr. Araujo’s belongings and sent him to the hospital as a John Doe. His sons had to learn about his death by seeing video footage of their father dying in the street where he was shot.

DOJ and DHS, acting under the authority and control of President Trump, have refused to cooperate with local investigations, refused to disclose the names of the perpetrators, claimed the officers involved acted in self-defense, and are painting Mr. Araujo as an aggressor before any investigation has been completed. These self-defense claims are not supported by available video evidence and are contradicted by witnesses. Federal officials also publicly insinuated that Mr. Araujo was involved in narcotics activity by highlighting the discovery of a “crystal-like substance” in his vehicle. Subsequent laboratory testing confirmed that the substance was not an illicit drug, disproving those suggestions.

This too is an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a Federal immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.

On July 13, 2026, ICE officers killed Mr. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, an unarmed man, in Biddeford, Maine, during yet another purported traffic stop in which the victim posed no threat to the ICE officers who gunned him down. DHS claims that it was surveilling the last-known address of someone with a final order of removal, followed someone who left that residence, and then, when that person drove away in the vehicle, the officer, “fearing for public safety,” shot and killed Mr. Guerrero, while his wife watched from their apartment building window. In fact, ICE officers were looking for someone else; Mr. Guerrero had work authorization, was a husband, and was the father of a three-year-old daughter who had to see her father lying dead in the street after being gunned down by ICE officers.

This too is an unjustified killing. Without a trial, a Federal immigration officer acted as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.

Though DHS briefly ceased non-urgent traffic stops after its officers unjustifiably killed two people within a single week, President Trump swiftly announced his support for DHS policies that have resulted in the brutal killing of civilians, via a social media post: “The men and women of ICE are doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done. We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” President Trump continued to condone unjustified killings by ICE and CBP officials.

1. (2) ENABLING ICE AND CBP TO OPERATE WITH ANONYMITY AND SECRECY TO TERRORIZE COMMUNITIES, IN VIOLATION OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT PROTECTION AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES AND THE FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS

Under President Trump’s control, ICE and CBP officers hide their identities by wearing masks and other face coverings, failing to wear identifying uniforms, refusing to provide their names and badge numbers, and entering homes without warrants. Through government-sanctioned anonymity, officers evade accountability to the public, elected officials, and the courts. Under President Trump’s direction, his administration has actively refused to cooperate with and has intentionally hampered State investigations into abuses by Federal officers, withholding important evidence to shield officers from scrutiny for unjustified killings in Minnesota, Texas, and Maine. The masks worn by officers also inspire fear and instill terror in their victims and the communities in which the officers operate. As Judge William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts explained: “ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence. … [M]asks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”.

1. (3) ENABLING ICE AND CBP TO UNDERMINE CIVIL LIBERTIES AND BASIC FREEDOM OF SPEECH, IN VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH

With President Trump’s express support and encouragement, ICE and CBP have targeted and unconstitutionally arrested pro-Palestinian students and academics without an adequate legal basis in violation of their First Amendment right to free speech, including Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Öztürk, Mohsen Mahdawi, and Badar Khan Suri, among others.

Under President Trump’s command, ICE and CBP are operating with impunity to carry out mass, unlawful arrests; illegally imprison people; illegally remove them from the country; and commit violent crimes against people in an effort to terrorize and silence the American people. In addition to conducting the unjustified killings of civilians, including Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, ICE and CBP, as part of their normal course of activity, have violently assaulted individuals, used unnecessary force, smashed car windows, and abducted and disappeared individuals.

1. (4) UNDERMINING JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT BY FLOUTING THE SEPARATION OF POWERS

President Trump, directly and through officials within his administration, has abused his power by shielding ICE and CBP officers from judicial oversight. These agencies have detained and removed individuals despite court orders blocking their removal from the country. Specifically, though not exhaustively, ICE deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador against a court order due to an administrative error, and then President Trump and his administration refused to facilitate his return for several months in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court order. ICE also deported about 250 Venezuelan men to El Salvador without due process, directly disobeying an emergency order from a Federal judge. In a conversation with El Salvador’s president, President Trump suggested detaining and sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons: “The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns.”.

With the support and backing of President Trump and senior officials in his administration, officers and other agency employees have refused to cooperate with and have actively undermined State and local investigations into misconduct by ICE officers. Federal officials have undertaken baseless public investigations into the victims and the victims’ families; they have made official (but false) assurances that ICE officers are immune from prosecution; and pursuant to President Trump’s authority, both the FBI and the DOJ have not prosecuted crimes committed by ICE and CBP officers. Furthermore, ICE has blatantly disregarded court orders to release or refrain from moving detainees, again with President Trump’s knowledge and pursuant to his orders and authority.

The Trump administration acknowledged violating New Jersey Federal judges’ orders more than 50 times over the course of 10 weeks in deportation-related cases. Minnesota’s chief Federal judge, Patrick J. Schiltz, detailed in a ruling that ICE violated nearly 100 court orders and had disobeyed more judicial directives in January 2026 alone than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.” A Reuters review of court records found that hundreds of judges have ruled that the Trump administration has unlawfully detained immigrants more than 4,400 times since October 2025, and Politico compiled a database of at least 15,000 rulings against the administration since July 2025; yet, the administration continues to jail people indefinitely.

In all of this, President Donald John Trump has violated the article II, section 1, clause 8-mandated Presidential oath of office to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States; has abused the powers of the Presidency by committing high crimes and misdemeanors, in a manner contrary to his trust as President; has detrimentally flouted the United States Constitution by operating vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary forces killing people (including Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero); and is now even closer to brazenly and wantonly devolving the United States democratic republic into an authoritarian regime, where, if left in office, unjustified killings of people and coverups by ICE and CBP are normalized to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.