118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 503
Impeaching Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United
States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 13, 2023
Mrs. Boebert (for herself, Mr. Gaetz, and Mr. Crane)
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to
the Committee on the Judiciary
June 22, 2023
Rereferred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in
addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the
jurisdiction of the committee concerned
RESOLUTION
Impeaching Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United
States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Resolved, That Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is impeached for
high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following articles
of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of
Representatives of the United States of America in the name
of itself and of the people of the United States of America,
against Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United
States, in maintenance and support of its impeachment
against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
ARTICLE I: ABUSE OF POWER
The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives
“shall have the sole Power of Impeachment” and that the
President of the United States “shall be removed from Office
on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or
other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”. In his conduct as
President of the United States—and in violation of his
constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of the
President of the United States and, to the best of his
ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of
the United States, and in violation of his constitutional
duty to take care that the laws be faithfully
executed—Joseph R. Biden, Jr., has abused the powers of the
office of the President of the United States, in that:
Using the powers of his high office, President Biden has
knowingly presided over an executive branch that has
continuously, overtly, and consistently violated Federal
immigration law by pursuing an aggressive, open-borders
agenda by purposefully and knowingly releasing more than
2,000,000 illegal aliens into the interior of the United
States without the intention or ability to ensure that they
appear in immigration court to face asylum or deportation
proceedings.
President Biden has intentionally facilitated a complete and
total invasion at the southern border. President Biden ended
the Migrant Protection Protocols to require aliens seeking
asylum to remain in Mexico while being processed by the
Department of Homeland Security. President Biden has closed
Department of Homeland Security detention facilities and
refused to cooperate with State and local law enforcement
officials in securing the border. He has allowed illegal
aliens to enter the United States as asylum seekers despite
knowing they did not qualify for asylum. President Biden has
pursued this open-border agenda purposefully and willfully,
circumventing every safeguard, check, and balance required
by law, resulting in mass illegal immigration into the
United States, to the detriment of the American people.
President Biden, with such conduct, has demonstrated a
failure to uphold Federal immigration law, violating his
oath to the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and
has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with the rule of
law and to the manifest injury of the people of the United
States.
Wherefore, President Biden, by such conduct, warrants
impeachment and trial, removal from office, and
disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor,
trust, or profit under the United States.
ARTICLE II: DERELICTION OF DUTY
The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives
“shall have the sole Power of Impeachment” and that the
President of the United States “shall be removed from Office
on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or
other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”. In his conduct as
President of the United States—and in violation of his
constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of the
President of the United States and, to the best of his
ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of
the United States, and in violation of his constitutional
duty to take care that the laws be faithfully
executed—Joseph R. Biden, Jr., has neglected the
constitutional duty of the office of the President of the
United States, in that:
Neglecting the powers of his high office, President Biden
has abandoned his duties to ensure that the laws are
faithfully executed and upheld, by presiding over an
executive branch that has continually, overtly, and
consistently refused to enforce the Nation’s immigration
laws and secure the southern border. President Biden has
endangered the security of the United States and the health
and safety of the American people. President Biden has
caused a national security crisis and is endangering the
lives of the American people.
President Biden has presided over the largest influx of
illegal immigrants in American history, and as evidence of
his dereliction, the deportation cases pursued by his
administration are at historic lows. President Biden’s
negligence of duty has resulted in the surrender of
operational control of the border to the complete and total
control of foreign, criminal cartels—putting the lives of
American citizens in jeopardy. On President Biden’s watch,
illegal aliens have been processed and released into the
interior of the country under a mass system of parole,
contrary to the clear terms of Federal immigration law.
Utilizing the “CBP ONE” program, the executive branch will
release nearly 40,000 illegal aliens per month into the
United States. He has failed to uphold the mandatory
detention and deportation provisions of immigration laws,
resulting in the mass entry of inadmissible aliens and the
continued presence of deportable aliens. Through this
complete and total dereliction of duty and extreme absence
in oversight of his own administration’s policies, President
Biden has allowed more than 1,500,000 illegal immigrants to
invade the southern border. On Joe Biden’s watch, illicit
fentanyl has killed more than 100,000 American citizens. In
fiscal year 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized more
than 9,000 pounds of fentanyl at the southern border.
In his failure to uphold the rule of law, President Biden
has demonstrated that he will neglect his duty to execute
the office to which he has been entrusted, violating his
oath to the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and
has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his
constitutional duty to take care that the laws of the United
States be faithfully executed.
Wherefore, President Biden, by such conduct, warrants
impeachment and trial, removal from office, and
disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor,
trust, or profit under the United States.
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