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Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., is mounting a long-shot bid to question President Donald Trump as he stares down a major menace from youthful challengers, who search to thwart his bid for a fifteenth House time period.
Larson, 77, launched 13 articles of impeachment against Trump on Monday, citing the president’s navy intervention in Venezuela, the deployment of National Guard troops to cities throughout the nation and his government order to curtail birthright citizenship, amongst different prices.
Larson additionally charged Trump with “murder, war crimes and piracy” for ordering a naval blockade round Venezuela focusing on U.S.-sanctioned oil tankers forward of the U.S. seize of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January and for launching dozens of strikes against alleged drug trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean.
“Through his serial usurpation of the congressional war power and commission of murder, war crimes, and piracy, Donald J. Trump has acted contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of law, liberty, and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States,” the decision reads in half.
Acting President Delcy Rodriguez speaks throughout a ceremony marking the opening of the brand new judicial yr on the Supreme Tribunal of Justice in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 30, 2026. (Ariana Cubillos/AP)
The decision has little probability of advancing in the Republican-controlled House or ensuing in a Senate trial, even when Larson chooses to pressure a vote when lawmakers return the week of April 13.
However, Larson’s impeachment push comes because the septuagenarian congressman faces a heated major problem from a number of youthful candidates operating on a mantle of generational change.
Larson, a senior member of the highly effective House Ways and Means Committee, notably suffered a complex partial seizure whereas delivering a speech on the House ground in February 2025.
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Primary challenger Luke Bronin, 46, a former Hartford mayor and navy veteran, has known as on Larson to step apart after practically three a long time in the House. Bronin, who’s backed by Democratic-aligned veterans teams, outraised Larson in the course of the first two months after launching his rebel marketing campaign in 2025.
It is unclear whether or not Larson’s impeachment push is supported by House Democratic management. A spokesperson for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., didn’t instantly reply to Fox News Digital’s request for remark.
Larson is the newest in a string of House Democrats to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump since he started his second time period.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries throughout a information convention on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2026. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg)
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Trump has repeatedly warned that Democrats will try and impeach him for a 3rd time if the get together retakes management of the House chamber in 2027.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., didn’t rule out that chance throughout an interview with MS NOW final week, however added that Democrats would deal with addressing cost-of-living points.
Fox News Digital reached out to Larson and the White House for remark.
