Long before being started from Trump’s speech, representative Al Green called for the president’s indictment

He was the first democrat to call for dismissal during the first term of President Donald Trump at the White House and now the representative Al Green would be the first legislator in modern history to be thrown from a joint session of the congress or a speech on the state of the Union, according to a presidential historian.

The 78 -year -old Texas Congress Member was escorted outside the room of the room at the Capitol Building Tuesday evening by the House Sergeant in Arms after keeping and shaking his cane in Trump, and refused to obey the order of the president of the Mike Johnson room to sit down and refrain from interrupting the President’s speech by shouting critics.

“I cannot think that another legislator has been released. In modern history, I can say with a certain level of confidence that the answer is no,” said presidential historian Mark Upmegrove, CEO of President Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation.

Before Trump’s speech, the members of the House Freedom Caucus called on the sergeant of arms to take measures against any member of the Congress who violated the rules of the Chamber during the address.

“The president’s speech at the joint session of this evening congress is a constitutional obligation – not a slideshow for democrats to use noises, make threats, throw things or otherwise disturb,” said the Caucus Freedom in a statement published on social networks. “Our colleagues should be noted that Heckler’s veto will not be tolerated. You will be censored. We expect the Arms Sergeant and the Capitol police to take the appropriate measures against any member of the Congress or other people violating the rules of the Chamber.”

Wednesday morning, the Hardliners group said they would censorship, but the moderate representative of Washington Gop Dan Newhouse had defeated them. Newhouse officially introduced a measure on the floor of the room to censor Green, which should be voted on Thursday.

Freedom Caucus members include representative Lauren Boebert, R-Colorado.

During the speeches of President Joe Biden between 2022 and 2024, Boebert and the representative Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Georgia, heckled the former president. During the speech of the state of the Union of Biden in 2023, Greene got up and shouted “liar” to the former president several times, but was not escorted outside the house of the house.

Upmegrove, an ABC News contributor, noted that representative Joe Wilson, in South Carolina, shouted “you were lying” at the address of former president Barack Obama in 2009 to a joint session of the health care congress. At the time, the House of Representatives, with the Democrats holding the majority, voted to reprimand Wilson, who then apologized to Obama.

“The Joe Wilson episode was in a way the introduction of greater hostility to Congress, at least in modern times,” said Upmegrove.

After unleashing in Trump, shouting: “You have no mandate to cut Medicaid”, Green was withdrawn from the room on Tuesday evening. He later declared to ABC News that he would host any consequence of his disturbance, saying that he “followed the wishes of consciousness”.

“There are times when it is better to be alone than not to stand at all,” said Green.

Green doubled his protest against Trump’s speech on Wednesday, saying that if we gave the chance: “I would do it again”.

“I am not angry with the speaker. I am not angry with the officers. I am not angry with the members who will bring requests or resolutions. I will undergo the consequences,” Green told ABC News.

Green added: “What I did was from my heart. People suffer. And I was talking about Medicaid. I didn’t just say that you didn’t have a mandate. I said you didn’t have the mandate to cut Medicaid.”

Green said he had not spoken to a democratic leadership of his explosion on Tuesday evening.

This is not the first time that Green, which has represented the 9th district of the Texas Congress since 2005, is a thorn on the side of Trump.

In May 2017, Green presented the first articles of dismissal against Trump, citing the dismissal of the director of the FBI, James Comey. In July 2019, he again called Trump’s dismissal, citing the president’s attack on four democratic women. The room voted for the table of the resolution of Green, killing it effectively.

And last month, Green announced on the Congress prosecutor’s office that he intended to deposit articles of dismissal against Trump again, citing the president’s suggestion that the United States took charge of the Gaza Strip.

“The movement to dismiss the president began,” said Green on the house of the house. “I get up to announce that I will bring indictment articles against the president for the vile proposed acts and vile acts.”

In February 2024, Green, temporarily left his hospital bed in a wheelchair after having undergone an intestinal surgery to vote against the indictment led by the Republicans of Alejandro Mayorkas, then secretary of internal security of Biden, on his handling of a crisis on the southern border. The room ended up voting 214-216 so as not to involve Mayorkas.

“I wanted to do everything I can because I know the secretary Mayorkas. He is a decent good man and I did not want to see his tennished reputation,” said Green at the time.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Green moved to Houston, Texas, in the 1970s to attend the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, where he obtained a law diploma, according to a biography published on his website. He then founded and co -managed the Green, Wilson, Dewberry and Fitch law firm.

Green was also a justice of the peace for the county of Harris, Texas, for 26 years, retired in 2004 to present himself at the Congress. He also served for 10 years as president of the NAACP Houston branch.

During his mandate at the Congress, Green focused on fair housing and fair job practices for the poor and minorities. During his stay at the Congress, he sat on the Committee of Financial Services of the Chamber and the Internal Security Committee and chaired the subcommittee of the surveillance and investigations of the Chamber.

On his website, Green attributes to his family to have taught him “a resistance just to overcome the persistent injustice”.