Rep. John Larson on Monday introduced 13 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, accusing him of murder, war crimes and piracy over a naval blockade around Venezuela and other actions the Connecticut Democrat says violated the Constitution. Larson said Trump ordered the blockade around Venezuela to target U.S.-sanctioned oil tankers before the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, and he also tied the charges to dozens of strikes against alleged drug trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean.
The resolution says Trump acted contrary to his trust as president and was subversive of constitutional government. Larson also cited Trump's military intervention in Venezuela, the deployment of National Guard troops to cities across the country and his executive order to curtail birthright citizenship. Those charges put the centerpiece of his case in stark terms: that Trump used federal power not just aggressively, but unlawfully.
Larson is not building this fight from a position of strength in Congress. The House is Republican-controlled, making the resolution unlikely to advance or to lead to a Senate trial, though Larson may still force a vote when lawmakers return the week of April 13.
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The move also lands in the middle of Larson's own political fight. He is seeking a 15th House term while facing primary challengers running on generational change, including Luke Bronin, a 46-year-old former Hartford mayor and military veteran who has called on Larson to step aside after nearly three decades in the House. Bronin also outraised Larson during the first two months after launching his insurgent campaign in 2025. Larson, who is 77 years old and a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, suffered a complex partial seizure while delivering a speech on the House floor in February 2025.
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He is the latest in a string of House Democrats to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump since he began his second term, but this one is unlikely to go anywhere in the chamber that would have to carry it forward. For Larson, the immediate test is whether he can turn a symbolic attack on Trump into a vote — and whether voters back home are more interested in his indictment of the president than in the challenge to his own time in Congress.
