Derry, NH, April 19, 2025
At a freedom rally in Derry, NH, today former United States Senator Gordon Humphrey called upon New Hampshire’s U.S. Representatives Pappas and Goodlander to support the impeachment of President Trump.
“How ironic and tragic that on this day, the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, we would find it necessary to gather here and assert our rights, just as the Minutemen gathered in Lexington and Concord to assert their rights.
“A president swears to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Untied States.” Donald Trump has violated his oath office on multiple occasions and gives every sign of intending to continue doing violence to the Constitution. On these grounds, he should be impeached.
“Today, I call upon New Hampshires two Members of the United States House of Representatives immediately to support a resolution of impeachment, writing their own resolution if necessary.”
The text of Humphrey’s speech follows:
Fellow citizens, neighbors,
How ironic and tragic that on this day, the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, we would find it necessary to gather here and assert our rights, just as the Minutemen gathered in Lexington and Concord to assert their rights.
Just as the patriots gathered to protest the arbitrary acts of Mad King George, we gather here today to protest the arbitrary acts of “King Donald.”
In many parts of the world today, we would be arrested and imprisoned what we’re doing. We’d be arrested for assembling. We’d be arrested for speaking our minds. But — for the moment — we need not worry, for the Constitution,, guarantees our right to assembly and free speech, just as we have right to a free press.
Further, the Fifth Amendment provides that “no person” shall be deprived of “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
That’s what the Constitution says. Yet, notoriously, our president has denied due process of law to one person, a person whom the president whisked out of the country and imprisoned in El Salvador without due process. And to make matters infinitely worse, the president is now stiff-arming the judicial branch, unlawfully violating orders issued by the Judicial Branch seeking to uphold the Constitution.
OK, so that victim is just one person who is not even a citizen of the United States. What’s the big deal? The big deal is that the president his violated the Constitution of the United States that guarantees “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty of property without due process of law.”
The big deal is the president is doing violence to the only barrier that stands between us and dictatorship, our Constitution. The president is battering the document that both asserts and protects our right.
A president swears to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Untied States.” Donald Trump has violated his oath office on multiple occasions and gives every sign of intending to continue doing violence to the Constitution. On these grounds, he should be impeached.
The president has gone far beyond violating the Constitutional rights of individual persons, he has attacked the separation of powers that are intended to ensure the Executive Branch cannot dominate the government.
The president has refused to execute laws passed by Congress. In doing so he has attacked the separation of powers doctrine. The president is refusing to comply our orders of the Judicial Branch. In doing so he has, likewise, attacked the separation of powers doctrine.
In attacking the separation of powers doctrine, the president has attacked the Constitution, in attacking the Constitution the president has attacked the rights of the American people and their security in those rights.
Again, I assert that President Donald Trump has violated the oath of office. Today, I call upon New Hampshires two Members of the United States House of Representatives immediately to support a resolution of impeachment, writing their own resolution if necessary.
The Constitution is not self-actuating. Enforcing the Constitution requires acts by judges and/or acts my Members of Congress.
The Judicial Branch is doing its part courageously The Legislative Branch is failing to do its, instead cowering in fear of the King.
It’s time for action by Congress. It’s time add courage to principle and move decisively to protect America from the dictatorship towards which are sliding each day.
And further, I want to call upon the legal profession to speak out. To few attorneys have spoken out. It’s time for the legal profession to rise up, as individual attorneys and as bar associations, to protect the Constitution and to demand Congress begin impeachment proceedings.
As we move forward in the days ahead, let us be resolute and courageous, but let us also be respectful towards those who disagree with us. Let us give our fellow citizens room and time to change their minds, time to back away from supporting Donald Trump while preserving their self-respect.