Irish Woman

Some thoughts on Pete Hegseth’s impeachment and what comes next: First, make no mistake, Hegseth deserves to be impeached. The reasons are simple, and they come straight from the Constitution and the law. Only Congress can send this country to war. Congress never approved a war with Iran, and the law gives a president 60 days before troops have to come home without that approval. Instead, the war has gone on for more than eight months. The House voted in June and again in July to end it, and Secretary Hegseth kept it going anyway. When pressed, he claimed a ceasefire paused the legal deadline. The law does not account for that. He also broke the rules our own military lives by. In September 2025, two men survived a strike on a boat in the Caribbean and were clinging to the wreckage. They were killed in a second strike. Killing shipwrecked survivors is banned under the Pentagon's own rulebook. On the first day of the Iran war, a missile hit a girls' elementary school after reported warnings that the targeting information was years out of date. The Pentagon still hasn't told us what went wrong. Rep. Massie's articles of impeachment lay all of this and much more out with real care. They are grounded in the law, well documented, and written by a Republican who put his oath ahead of his party. I disagree with Massie on many things, but he has done the country a genuine service, and I respect him for it. Now the question is whether Mike Johnson will let the Senate do its job if we impeach in the House. In September he canceled our last day of votes before the election to keep this off the floor, and called it a stunt. If Johnson sits on the articles instead of sending them to the Senate for a full trial, he will be failing our Constitution and the institution he swore to lead. It would also be a fitting end to Johnson’s speakership. Time and again he has handed away powers the Constitution gave to Congress, sending members home, burying votes, and deferring to the White House at every turn. A coequal branch only stays coequal if its leaders defend it. History will remember Mike Johnson as a sycophant who put Trump’s approval above the people's House he was elected to lead. He still has a few weeks to prove otherwise, but I’m not holding my breath.

Donald Trump told 60 Minutes he wants to work with Democrats on immigration at roughly the same time he made Stephen Miller, the architect of his administration’s mass deportation agenda, his White House chief of staff. Not great. The truth is Congressional Republicans and Democrats have already done the hard work of writing a bill together. I helped introduce the bipartisan Dignity Act, and it’s ready for Congress to take up. It strengthens border security and speeds up asylum decisions. It gives eligible immigrants who have lived here for years a chance to earn legal status and keep working if they pass background checks and meet requirements. It also gives Dreamers a path to citizenship. If President Trump meant what he said, he can show it by backing the Dignity Act and asking Congressional leaders to bring it to a vote.