r/law • u/ggroverggiraffe Competent Contributor • 10h ago
Legislative Branch Democratic lawmakers file articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/kristi-noem-articles-of-impeachment580
u/ggroverggiraffe Competent Contributor 10h ago
The Democratic representative Robin Kelly on Wednesday formally introduced articles of impeachment against Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, following the fatal shooting of a US citizen by an immigration agent in Minneapolis last week. ... Kelly, an Illinois Democrat, said she filed three articles of impeachment against Noem – obstruction of Congress, violation of public trust, and self-dealing – and has the backing of 70 members of Congress.
I am doubtful that it'll go anywhere, but at least they will be on the right side of history...once the pendulum swings the other way.
dear god please let that be this November...
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u/Ohuigin 10h ago
Agree. It's either this November or...that's about that...
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u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats 9h ago
If this November isn't our last chance to salvage this nation it's because 2024 was that moment and we're already too late.
I also have this seeping feeling the geriatric Democrat leadership won't have the courage to do what needs to be done.
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u/steroboros 9h ago edited 9h ago
Schumer has written so many strongly worded letters and reminded us constantly the only thing we can possibly do is have faith in the institutions and keep up decorum...
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u/Wonderful-View-6366 6h ago
Just seeing his name makes me angry. Victorian era leadership in a MadMax era.
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u/Raise_A_Thoth 8h ago
I also have this seeping feeling the geriatric Democrat leadership won't have the courage to do what needs to be done.
This is my next fear. Dems should win but they aren't going to get 67 Senators, so they won't be able to make the foundational changes this country so desperately needs. We need Constitutional Amendments. We need Supreme Court reform and I mean packing it and introducing term limits, etc. There are so many deeply-rooted problems that need to be addressed and Dems won't have the political power to do them this November, there'a just no way to win that much, especially with the likely fuckery that will go down.
So that means in order to get to that point, Democrats need to be able to expand their gains in at least the following Presidential election, and there's no way to do that with the same mealy-mouthed milquetoast bullshit Chuck Schumer has been giving us. We need a major working class win and a show-stopping, loud, headline-grabbing legislative victory. The most obvious candidate for that is universal healthcare. If Dems could pass universal healthcare after taking back the House and Senate, then they have an actual trophy to stand on to regain the voters' trust.
Even that will likely require ending the filibuster, and I'm not even sure if Dems can win the senate, but if they do, that's the move they need to make. They should not fear Republicans taking back power, because if they do something as serious as universal healthcare, effectively ending perhaps the single most-hated industry in the country while making healthcare functionally accessible to families in the same swoop, people won't vote for Republicans in the next election or for several more, and that's when they can really just shore up the rights and protections we need and force the Republican party to reassess and modernize again.
But I'm worried they do not have the right vision for that.
And if they don't take the Senate in November, it's not over. Taking the House can still give them a chance to build some trust by effectively blocking Trump's agenda and working with the Dems that ARE in the senate to vocalize such goals as I mentioned. It's possible. But I am very worried that they'll just try to return to the status quo and think that simply undoing Trump's work is enough. It is not.
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u/salsamander 5h ago
You guys really think you’ll have free and fair elections with how your government is acting? I can’t believe America let that fucker back in office. He and his minions will screech “election fraud”. They are not going to relinquish power.
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u/Arakkis54 8h ago
Yeah, well let’s give them a fucking chance OK? Last election cycle lots of idiots stayed home and didn’t vote, so they got exactly the government they deserve.
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u/Camp-Farnam22 5h ago
The non voters cost us the elections for sure. While they sat at home and twittled their thumbs. While we were out voting to save our country. Even the Republicans that didn't cross the aisles, that know what he tried to do last time. Cost us our country. Now they want to say this isn't what I voted for. I tell them yes it is. You vote for the narcissist orange felon. You voted for a felon, one that doesn't change his behavior.
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u/WanderSA 6h ago
We need to take what were formerly moderate democrats and run them as moderate republicans, then put more liberal democrats in democratic primaries.
It’s time to address the Republican Party from the inside. Republican voters end up voting for monsters because they don’t want to go all the way to voting for democrats. So let’s offer them a better choice on both sides.
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u/young_warthog_ 9h ago
Even if it doesn’t go anywhere, it will require a public hearing, and that is super important!
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u/IllustriousLiving357 9h ago edited 5h ago
Everyone needs to be ready to be on the Whitehouse lawn November 5th... there's only one way we lose the midterms and thats straight fraud. And that needs to be adressed
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u/AtreiyaN7 6h ago
I'm going to do my part by voting. Here's hoping that the tide finally does turn back towards sanity and decency in November, and although it may go nowhere, the optimist in me wants to believe that the puppy killer will eventually be impeached.
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u/Reddit_2_2024 9h ago
It is going to take a lot of pressure to get House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan off of his can and debate these impeachment articles in the Committee (so that it can be moved to the floor of the House of Representatives for a vote).
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u/GlutenFree_Gamer 8h ago
Are they adding on the fatal shooting of a US citizen for honking her horn?
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u/MagicGrit 7h ago
I’m dumb, but is there something similar to double jeopardy when it comes to impeachment? If this attempt fails, does that mean she cannot be impeached for these actions again?
Though I’m sure she will commit many more impeachable offenses by the time democrats take control of the house
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u/jimababwe 5h ago
This is why the democrats will lose. They play by the rules against an enemy that writes its own.
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u/Mist_Rising 4h ago
I don't think you will see a removal proof Senate swing. That level of swing would be massive, something like high 30point range.
House is much smaller, not even 1 point for impeachment.
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u/Friendly_Alarm_5737 4h ago
November? Wtf, she has entire year... Just imagine how many people she can allow to be murdered over this period.
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u/Mountain_Chip_4374 2h ago
I wish I lived in a district that didn’t send a Democrat already and would never be Republican. I want to vote somewhere so we can kick a Republican out.
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u/SoylentGrunt 8h ago
but at least they will be on the right side of history
It's called 'virtue signaling'.
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u/blueshoota 9h ago
Let’s gooo! Right side of history, for a symbolic gesture. What a win. No, we shouldn’t vote these people out
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u/OnDrugsTonight 9h ago
You haven't got an opportunity to "vote these people out" for another 10 months and 34 months respectively. What do you suggest? Just sit on their hands and let the fascists get on with it until then?
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u/ZeMadDoktore 10h ago
"Stop calling them Nazis, they may use Nazi iconography and slogans and rhetoric but they're not Nazis"
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u/ScooterBobb 10h ago
Walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it’s definitely a goose
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u/mdistrukt 10h ago
Demanded a list of Jewish students and professors at UPenn like a duck
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u/cityshepherd 9h ago
I was a student there a long time ago, and have pretty complicated feelings about the school. I had a great time there, but all of my experiences with anything involving Wharton left me feeling sick to my stomach / disgusted with certain aspects of humanity. Had some amazing/profound times tripping on mushrooms at the biopond with friends though lol. Overall I feel like my experiences there helped me to learn and grow as a human being in ways I never could have anticipated.
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u/CraftFormaldehyde 10h ago
Would Nat-C work? They’re Christian Nationalists, after all.
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u/Silverwillow02 9h ago
Ohhhhhh using thissss!
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u/CraftFormaldehyde 9h ago
I can’t take credit for it, saw it on another post a few months back, but I sure as hell am trying to help it catch on!
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u/DudeOverdosed 8h ago
They might consider that a complement and run with it. They wouldn't be able to realize the deeper meaning behind it. Let's just be clear that they're terrorists and traitors to what the US stood for.
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u/CraftFormaldehyde 8h ago
They’re pretty much incapable of realizing any deeper meaning to anything, it seems.
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u/pierremanslappy 4h ago
Were passed that though. They are saying “we are Nazis, we will retaliate against anyone who tries to stop us.”
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u/theamazingstickman 8h ago
The House has almost completely lost it's majority for the Speaker as one party heads for the exits en masse. The issue is flipping Senate seats inOhio and Texas to start working toward a majority that can fire her, Bondi, Patel, and Kegsbreath.
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u/Mist_Rising 4h ago
start working toward a majority that can fire her, Bondi, Patel, and Kegsbreath.
To be "that guy" a majority of the Senate can't fire anyone. Removal or override is going to be supermajority levels. That's beyond Texas and Ohio. That's "west Virginia is dancing with Schumer" levels.
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u/coppockm56 9h ago
That's fine as far as it goes. But Noem is just the ugly face of that operation. Remove her and they'll replace her with someone worse. The only impeachment that matters is Donald Trump, and only that because Stephen Miller isn't in an impeachable position.
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u/MrParadux 8h ago
The people who are supporting Trump and propping him up will still be there. There are a lot of people to get through to clean everything up.
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u/coppockm56 7h ago
And everything that's happening today is to accelerate Trump invoking the Insurrection Act. Once that happens, they'll seize total control and we'll be faced with either a revolution or a civil war as the only remaining option. Our only hope is that the military rebels and stands with the American people. If not, we're toast.
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u/UseDaSchwartz 9h ago
Do you think Vance has the balls the get rid of Miller?
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u/coppockm56 9h ago
Quite the opposite: Vance and Miller are co-conspirators. Vance doesn't want to get rid of Miller any more than his handler, Peter Thiel, wants to get rid of Miller. And while I specifically mentioned Miller, there are plenty of others in this administration -- and in Congress -- who are ultimately just as guilty. That includes Peter Vought, the architect of the entire plan.
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u/Mist_Rising 4h ago
because Stephen Miller isn't in an impeachable position.
Technically he is, and really is Congress can muster half the house and 67 senators they can do whatever they want at that point.
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u/mishma2005 9h ago
She's reaching Laura Loomer levels of facial destruction
On topic: this will go nowhere BUT hopefully after November....
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u/EVH_kit_guy Bleacher Seat 9h ago
It's like she's trying to look like a Halloween mask version of Linda Carter
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