To: Const.: Eric Schmitt, Peter Welch, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mazie Hirono, Cory Booker, Alex Padilla, Adam Schiff. Andy Biggs, Mary Gay Scanlon, Steve Cohen, Pramila Jayapal, Joe Neguse, Becca Balint, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, and Daniel S. Goldman

Empower the people to remove members of the federal government to reduce corruption.


We the people, URGE 67 U.S. Senators and 290 Representatives to propose this amendment to the States.


CONSTITUTION Amendment, Article XXVIII is to read:
* Empower the people of the United States to hold accountable and remove members of the federal government, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, to reduce corruption, “to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”  
* This amendment shall be so construed as to affect the election or term of any member of the federal government, before, and henceforth, once it becomes a valid part of the Constitution.
*This amendment shall have NO limit as to when the states ratify it. In fact, Congress shall propose it to states that have not yet ratified it, at every midterm and presidential election, and until three-fourths of the several states ratify it as an amendment to the Constitution.
* Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. However, Congress shall not reduce the power of the people to hold accountable and remove members of the three federal branches.

Section 1: Alter the impeachment proceedings in Article I, Section 3. The paragraph shall be amended to read:
The Senate shall have the sole power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside. When the trial is completed, the Senate will delegate to the people of the United States the Impeachment, conviction, and removal vote according to Amendment XXVIII.

Section 2: The recall proceedings: empower the people to remove members of the federal government.
* The times, places, and manner of holding elections to recall members of the federal government shall be prescribed in each state by the Legislature thereof (Article I, Section 4). 
* Currently, twenty states have a process to recall state officers, which might be amended to include members of the federal government, who shall have the same recall requirement as state officers.
* Any violation of the oath to defend or support the United States Constitution by federal officials shall trigger the recall process.

Section 3: Processes to remove members of the federal government:
* The votes of the people may remove members of the federal government after a Senate impeachment trial, or the recall process, during special elections held in May or November at the State or National level.
* A Party impeached or recalled and removed from Office shall be disqualified to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States and its States. The Party shall be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment, according to law, like every other U.S. citizen. (Article I, Section 3).”
* Vacancies in the legislative or judicial federal branches due to the impeachment or recall processes shall be filled according to the Constitution and statute. 

Section 3.1: Legislative Branch
During a special, midterm, or presidential election, members of CONGRESS shall be removed from office by a majority vote of the people of the state who elected them to office for violations of their oath to either the laws or the United States Constitution, or the laws or the state constitution, which they represent. 

Section 3.2: Judicial Branch
* At most one UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICE may be removed from office every two years. 
* The Judicial branch shall not mount any political campaign, or benefit from non-coordinated expenditures by super PACs; or be represented or receive direct or indirect support from PACs; or any private entity. The removal process is a referendum on their initial confirmation and judicial record.
  • Once this article is ratified as an amendment to the Constitution, the first five national elections shall use the ranked-choice voting process to recall and remove from office the Justice with the majority votes. 
  • Afterwards, a quorum to recall a Supreme Court Justice shall consist of ten of the twenty States with a recall process, when all States shall vote. 
* After a Senate impeachment trial or recall process, a majority vote of the people within each State and at least twenty-five of the fifty States shall be necessary to remove from office a Supreme Court Justice during a special, midterm, or presidential election.
LIST OF GRIEVANCES
* Supreme Court Judges are appointed for life; neither their oath to the Constitution nor their electronically recorded public hearings confirmation proceedings have a statute of limitations.
  • In their confirmation proceedings, all current members of the judicial branch affirmed that Roe v. Wade was a precedent and law of the land, which they overturned in June, 2022. Justices bide their time, culminating decades-long strategy with political groups.

Why is this important?

CONTINUATION OF SECTION 3 above

Section 3.3: Executive Branch
* If the people of the United States, after a Senate impeachment trial, convict and remove a member of the executive branch, in a national election. Vacancy shall be filled in accordance with this Constitution and statute. 
* If the people initiate a recall election of the executive branch, the President and the Vice-President shall be recalled at the same time in a national election. 
  • Congress shall engage and compensate the International IDEA, OSCE, or UN to oversee the recall and replacement elections of both MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH by the people of the United States. 
  • The first national special election shall determine whether to recall the executive branch. AFTER ten of the twenty States with a recall process have satisfied the quorum to recall the executive branch of the federal government. 
  • If the EXECUTIVE BRANCH is removed from office by a recall election, 
    • The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on Thursday, within 48 hours of election day.
    • The Congress may choose an interim temporary executive branch according to the Constitution.
    • A second consecutive special election shall take place to elect a NEW EXECUTIVE BRANCH of the federal government. A majority vote of the people within each State and at least twenty-five of the fifty States shall be necessary during a special, midterm, or presidential election.
LIST OF GRIEVANCES
_________President Donald J. Trump_____________ has committed many of the Tyrannic actions performed by the King of Great Britain and listed in our Declaration of Independence and more. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. 
  • The law, 18 USC § 208, which exempts the President/Vice President, encourages corruption and contradicts Amendment Article XIV of the Constitution, equal protection of the law.
 
 

WHY WE NEED TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION NOW.
The branches of the federal government (the legislative, executive, and judicial) are abdicating their Constitutional duties, checks and balances, and making decisions based on partisanship, allowing violations of the Constitution with no consequences. 
  • The Supreme Court on July 1, 2024, ruled that former President Trump is at least presumptively immune from criminal liability for his official acts. However, our Constitution clearly states that NO ONE is above the law, definitely those who have taken “an oath.”
  • The United States Senate’s impeachment trials (Article I, Section 3) provide evidence that the Constitution has been violated by members of Congress, the executive, and judicial branches (Article I, Section 9; Article II, Section 4;  Article VI); however, no one has been convicted or removed due to partisanship.

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS:
Our Declaration of Independence states, whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
  • George Washington's Farewell Address warns against hyper-partisanship and factions, and stresses adherence to the Constitution and public virtue. He advised leaders to serve the common good and respect governmental checks and balances.
  • Alexander Hamilton was concerned that an “unprincipled” man would “mount the hobby horse of popularity” and “throw things into confusion. In a government like ours.” He would write, “No one is above the law.”
In 2025, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton’s concerns have come to pass with Trump. It would be naïve to think Trump’s cronies and the younger generations watching federal officials will stop trying to silence journalists, threatening physical harm to political opponents, and denying Citizens' right to earn a livelihood.

HOW TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION NOW?
HOW. WE THE PEOPLE URGE that two-thirds of both Houses of Congress vote in favor and propose to the States an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Then, WE THE PEOPLE URGE that the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States ratify the amendment (Article V). THE ALTERNATIVE IS TO ELECT ACCOUNTABLE REPRESENTATIVES.
  • Article I states, “the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” 
  • Article X states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
We have the technology and the processes, which were not available when the Constitution was originally ratified in a convention on September 17, 1789.
  • TECHNOLOGY. In 1982, without the internet, Gregory Watson, a 19-year-old college sophomore, initiated a long-term campaign for Amendment 27, which was proposed in 1789 as part of the original Bill of Rights and finally ratified on May 7, 1992. 
  • RECALL PROCESS. 20 States (AZ, CA, CO, MI, NV, ND, WI, AK, GA, ID, IL, KS, LA, MN, MT, NJ, OR, RI, WA, VA) have recall elections, allowing citizens to attempt to remove from office elected State officials.