# Al Green Democratic U.S. Representative from Houston (Texas's 9th district since January 2005). He is the most persistent impeachment advocate of the Trump era: across both Trump terms he has forced **six House floor votes** on articles of impeachment, and all six were tabled. Not to be confused with the soul singer of the same name. He loses his seat in January 2027. Texas's 2025 [[Mid-Decade Redistricting]], drawn at Trump's urging, dismantled his district, and he lost the 2026 runoff in the new 18th to a fellow Democratic incumbent. ## Background Born Alexander N. Green on September 1, 1947, in New Orleans. He co-founded a Houston law firm in 1974, served as president of the Houston [[NAACP]], and was a Harris County justice of the peace from 1977 until 2004. He won the House seat in 2004. ## The impeachment record Green uses the House rule that lets any member offer an impeachment resolution as a privileged matter, which forces a vote within two legislative days whether leadership wants one or not. The majority's answer every time has been a motion to table. | Date | Trigger | Outcome | |---|---|---| | 2017-05-17 | Trump's firing of [[James Comey]] | Articles announced on the floor; no vote | | 2017-12-06 | First privileged resolution | Tabled 364–58 | | 2018-01-19 | Second privileged resolution | Tabled 355–66 | | 2019-07-17 | Trump's attacks on four congresswomen of color ([[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]], [[Ilhan Omar]], [[Rashida Tlaib]], Ayanna Pressley) | Tabled 332–95–1; 95 Democrats voted to keep it alive | | 2025-06-24 | June 2025 U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites without congressional authorization | Tabled 344–79; 128 Democrats, including leadership, voted to table | | 2025-12-11 | H.Res. 939, over Trump calling six Democratic veterans' video "seditious behavior, punishable by death" ([[Donald Trump - seditious behavior punishable by death]]) | Tabled 237–140; 47 Democrats, including [[Hakeem Jeffries]], voted "present" | | 2026-09-15 | H.Res. 1486, over [[ICE]] and [[CBP]] operating "without accountability," including deaths in encounters with federal agents | Tabled 232–147 with 47 "present"; the high-water mark of second-term support | The 2019 vote came two months before the Ukraine inquiry opened, and Green's articles were never the vehicle for either actual impeachment ([[Trump First Impeachment]], [[Trump Second Impeachment]]). See [[Trump Impeachments Timeline]] for the full sequence. ## Censure and the two removals from the chamber - **2025-03-04** — During Trump's joint address to Congress, Green stood and shouted that Trump had "no mandate to cut [[Medicaid]]." Speaker [[Mike Johnson]] had him removed from the chamber. - **2025-03-06** — The House censured him **224–198–2**, with ten Democrats joining every Republican. The resolution's author was [[Dan Newhouse]], one of the ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in 2021. - **2026-02-24** — At the State of the Union, Green was escorted out minutes into the speech for holding a sign reading "Black people aren't apes." It was a response to a video Trump had posted on [[Truth Social]] that month depicting [[Barack Obama]] and Michelle Obama as apes. ## Losing the seat (2025–2026) The 2025 Texas map put Green's home into a redrawn TX-18 that also took in parts of his old district (see [[Redistricting Timeline 2025-2026]]). That set up an incumbent-versus-incumbent race against Christian Menefee, 38, who had won the January 2026 special election for the late Sylvester Turner's seat. Menefee led the March 3, 2026 primary 46.0% to 44.2%. He then won the May 26 runoff by roughly 69% to 31%. The crypto industry's [[Fairshake PAC]] network, through its Protect Progress arm, spent against Green in the race. ## KB significance Green carries the minority side of the second-term "message vote" pattern on [[Trump Impeachments Timeline]]. His forced votes are how the House on-record count against tabling grew from 79 to 140 to 147, and how Democratic leadership's position moved from voting to kill his articles to voting "present." He also illustrates the redistricting through-line: the mid-decade map Trump demanded ended the career of the House's most dogged impeachment advocate in a Democratic primary. ## Related - [[Trump Impeachments Timeline]] - [[Dan Newhouse]] — author of the 2025 censure - [[Redistricting Timeline 2025-2026]] - [[Fairshake PAC]]