During President Donald Trump’s first four years in the White House, Democrats in the House of Representatives impeached him twice, failing to secure a conviction in the Senate both times. Now, only 100 days into Trump’s second term, another Democrat is breaking out the impeachment playbook again, but his congressional colleagues are less certain that it’s the right approach this time around.

Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) announced on Monday that he is introducing seven articles of impeachment against the president. “Donald Trump has already done real damage to our democracy,” Thanedar said in a video posted to social media, specifically targeting the president’s immigration and deportation agenda. “It’s time we impeach Donald J. Trump,” he said. The congressman concluded, “In this country, we have presidents, not kings.” Thanedar claimed that the president’s actions are “not just misconduct, it’s impeachable misconduct. This isn’t leadership, it’s tyranny.”

However, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) called Thanedar’s articles of impeachment a “distraction” from issues that Democrats should focus their attention on. In a Tuesday MSNBC interview, Dingell said, “I’m gonna be very blunt that we have to be making sure that people are seeing what we are doing. I don’t agree with my colleague on what he did. I think it’s a distraction,” she said, referring to the articles of impeachment. Dingell continued, “I think we need to be focused on the issues that people talk about at the kitchen table every night and show them what they’re doing.” The congresswoman anticipated that debates over health care will become a focal point for Americans over the next month. She commented, “That’s what we need to be focused on and delivering.”

Thanedar is not alone in his push for impeachment, though. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) said last week, “There is no doubt that this president’s conduct has already exceeded any prior standard for impeachment by the United States House of Representatives.” He claimed that the president is “granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin,” alleging, “There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.” Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) also called for impeaching the president, promising to introduce his own set of impeachment articles by May 5.

Green previously led efforts to impeach Trump during his first term, but the House rejected the impeachment articles in a 58 to 364 vote in 2017. In 2019, the then-Democrat-led House opened formal impeachment inquiries, alleging that the president had abused his executive authority to threaten a foreign nation (Ukraine) in order to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. In a vote of 230 to 197, the House impeached Trump, but the Senate acquitted him in early 2020. While two House Democrats voted against impeaching the president and one (current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard) voted “present,” Republican Senator Mitt Romney voted for convicting his own party’s president in the Senate.

Trump was impeached a second time in 2021, just a week before leaving the White House. Democrats charged the president with inciting an insurrection, related to his conduct on January 6, and 10 Republicans joined all 222 Democrats in voting for the impeachment. Trump was acquitted in the Senate on February 13, even though seven Republicans joined all Democrats and both Independents in voting to convict.

Thanedar’s articles of impeachment accuse the president of a broad range of offenses, including sweeping abuses of power, obstruction of justice, bribery and corruption, ignoring and violating court orders, firing federal executive branch employees and closing executive branch agencies, “unlawfully” establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and trying “to consolidate unchecked power, erode civil liberties, and defy constitutional limits on presidential authority.”