1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Since the beginning of his second term, President Donald J. Trump has demonstrated sustained disregard for constitutional limits, legal process, and the basic duties of the office. Congress now faces a responsibility it cannot defer: to determine whether the president’s conduct warrants impeachment under Article II of the Constitution and whether his repeated erratic actions trigger the safeguards of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. The Constitution does not require criminal conviction to act. It requires judgment. The president has repeatedly floated or acted upon ideas that violate law, treaty obligations, and basic governance norms. He has publicly proposed acquiring Greenland by coercion or force, openly threatened punitive tariffs untethered from statutory authority, and used trade policy as a tool of personal grievance rather than lawful economic regulation. These are not isolated comments. They form a pattern of impulsive decision-making with global consequences. At the same time, the administration has shown contempt for judicial authority. Court orders are ignored or slow-walked. Congress’s power of the purse is treated as optional. Federal agencies are directed by personal loyalty rather than law. This is not policy disagreement—it is constitutional defiance. Equally alarming are the president’s public statements and actions that suggest an inability or unwillingness to distinguish between personal impulse and lawful executive authority. The Twenty-Fifth Amendment exists precisely for moments when a president’s conduct raises serious questions about capacity, judgment, and fitness to discharge the powers of the office. Invoking its inquiry mechanisms is not partisan; it is constitutional triage. Impeachment and incapacity review are not mutually exclusive. One addresses abuse of power. The other addresses the risk posed when decision-making itself becomes unmoored from law, fact, and restraint. The Founders did not design these tools for convenience. They designed them for moments like this—when ignoring the problem becomes more dangerous than confronting it. I urge you to: Publicly support impeachment inquiries under Article II Demand sworn testimony and document production regarding executive lawlessness Initiate a formal Twenty-Fifth Amendment inquiry into presidential capacity Refuse to normalize impulsive, unlawful, or destabilizing conduct as “style” History will not judge Congress by how politically safe its choices were, but by whether it acted when constitutional guardrails were failing.