House Rejects Impeachment Push as Democrats Fracture Over Trump

On the floor of the House, a constitutional instrument met the quieter force of political hesitation. Representative Al Green's impeachment articles against President Trump — aimed at his immigration enforcement — did not fall to opposition so much as to silence, as dozens of Democrats declined to cast any vote at all. The abstentions, more than any formal rejection, revealed a party uncertain of its own convictions at a moment when conviction was precisely what the act demanded. What failed was not only a procedural measure, but a shared sense of purpose.