'Enough is Enough': Arrests Outside Pelosi's Office as Tlaib Backs Call for Immediate Trump Impeachment

Several demonstrators were arrested on Capitol Hill Wednesday as progressives rallied to demand that Democrats in the House initiate, without delay, impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

The action involved a sit-in at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) office. Grassroots groups CREDO Action and By the People, the organizers, were joined in the morning by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).

Tlaib last month signed a pledge calling on lawmakers to “defend us from a president who believes he can get away with anything.”

The congresswoman and other demonstrators argued that the president must be held accountable for his alleged obstruction of justice, violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause, and abuses of power, and that Democrats should use their control of the House to ensure that he is.

Watch the event below:

“For me as a member of Congress, it’s so important that I make sure that I check this president and even my colleagues when I feel they are not abiding by the U.S. constitution,” Tlaib told demonstrators, outlining Trump’s alleged violation of the emoluments clause, which bans the president from receiving gifts or payments from foreign and state governments, as one reason to begin impeachment proceedings: