Rep. Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat and far-left House backbencher, has filed 26 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

The sheer number distinguishes Cohen’s effort from the many other impeachment attempts launched by Trump’s political opponents, as reported by PJ Media.

Professor Jonathan Turley captured the spectacle with dry precision. Cohen “appears to believe that the problem with past impeachments has been brevity.

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His 26 articles of impeachment include everything short of ripping a label off a mattress, including the new impeachable offense of ‘self-aggrandizement.’”

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That supposed offense raises an obvious problem for Democrats who have elevated political vanity into an art form.

If “self-aggrandizement” is now grounds for removal, Barack Hussein Obama and Old Joe Biden would hardly be safe from the same creative standard.

Newsweek reported Saturday that Cohen introduced the articles last Thursday. They accuse Trump of “abuses of power, violations of his oath of office, and a sweeping range of other alleged misconduct.”

Behind that sprawling language is a much simpler political complaint.

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Trump is not a far-left Democrat, and his administration is standing in the way of the far-left agenda, so Cohen has repackaged political disagreement as impeachable behavior.

Cohen is also a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, giving the stunt an added layer of institutional absurdity.

His approach follows the familiar Democratic strategy of accusing Republicans of ethical wrongdoing while presenting the left as pure, principled, and untouched by corruption.

When an actual ethical violation cannot be established, the alternative is to treat ordinary policy differences as sinister conduct.

Under that standard, a Republican president becomes impeachable simply because he governs according to Republican priorities rather than taking orders from the Democratic establishment.

The articles cover Trump’s immigration policies, use of military power, federal spending, tariffs, presidential pardons, the federal workforce, universities, law firms, and the media.

They also include an allegation that Trump received personal financial benefit from the presidency.

Aside from that financial allegation, the complaints largely amount to Cohen insisting that he would govern differently.

Fortunately for the country, Steve Cohen is not president, and his lengthy resolution does not transform his preferred policies into constitutional requirements.

Newsweek reported that the first article accuses Trump of “undermining democracy” by sowing doubt in elections.

The source article notes that Democrats have challenged the legitimacy or conduct of the 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2024 elections, yet objections concerning 2020 are treated as uniquely disqualifying when Republicans raise them.

Making that accusation the first article suggests Cohen regards it as a leading justification for removing Trump.

The effort turns partisan standards into an impeachment test, with Democrats reserving one set of rules for themselves and another for their opponents.

The second article “alleges an abuse of power by waging war on Iran without congressional approval.”

The source argues that Barack Hussein Obama also undertook military actions without congressional approval, leaving the eventual treatment of Cohen’s allegation dependent more on the composition of Congress than on consistent standards.

The third article addresses alleged killings in international waters near Venezuela, while the fourth targets deployments of military forces involving American cities.

Immigration also occupies a major place in Cohen’s resolution, including Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order and the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act.

The articles address the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, conditions at El Salvador’s CECOT prison, and allegations that the administration defied court orders during immigration enforcement.

In practical terms, Cohen is seeking to turn opposition to open-borders policies into another basis for impeachment.

Additional accusations include “unlawfully withholding congressionally appropriated funds, imposing loyalty tests on the federal workforce, improperly terminating inspectors general, and abusing presidential pardon powers.”

The message is remarkably blunt: govern as Democrats demand, leave the federal establishment untouched and avoid challenging institutions favored by the left.

Cohen’s 26 articles are unlikely to gain traction under current conditions.

But if Democrats capture Congress, this impeachment catalog could quickly move from an attention-seeking exercise to a serious political weapon against Trump.

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