Ranking Member Raskin Statement on the Vote on the Motion to Table H.Res. 939

Washington, D.C. (December 11, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement on his vote on the Motion to Table H.Res. 939:

“Congressman Green has introduced an impeachment Resolution focusing on two of President Trump’s egregious recent assaults on the Constitution, a small part of the vast and growing inventory of such violations being committed by President Trump and members of his Cabinet, including Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Secretary Kristi Noem.

“Impeachment is a critical and essential means of political and constitutional self-defense that the Framers gave to the people to be used when a lawless president or other high official commits dangerous high crimes and misdemeanors against the people.    

“We are in a period when multiple members of the Trump Administration are engaged in lawless actions that potentially constitute high crimes and misdemeanors. Members who are outraged by these offenses have begun to file impeachment resolutions on particular actions and events that trouble them the most. There is certainly no shortage of such offenses against the Constitution and the people taking place.

“In the face of the Administration’s lawlessness, the proper thing to do at this point is not to vote to table this impeachment Resolution but to refer it to the Judiciary Committee. It is the Judiciary Committee which has always conducted hearings on potential high crimes and misdemeanors and prepared complete investigative reports to the House on successful impeachment resolutions in the past.  Even in the impeachment drive that I led and advanced in the 117th Congress against Donald Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the Constitution and the government—an impeachment based on actions that all the Members of Congress experienced ourselves—we voted on impeachment only with the benefit of a complete investigative report prepared by the House Judiciary Committee and delivered to the Members.

“Thus, I will be voting against tabling the Green Resolution but instead strongly support referring it to the Judiciary Committee, which should be conducting intensive hearings and investigative reports on the implications of all of the unconstitutional and potentially impeachable actions of the President and his Administration.”