Did Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamie Raskin file articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in January 2025 for his pardons of January 6 participants? No, that's not true: There was no such filing. Neither the representatives' websites nor the congressional site showing legislative activity made any mention of an impeachment resolution.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on January 24, 2025. The post included a photo of the representatives and read:
AOC and Jaime Raskin have filed articles of impeachment against President Trump for pardoning the J6 prisoners. Maybe Articles of Impeachment should be filed against them as well!
This is what the claim looked like on social media at the time of writing:
(Source: Threads screenshot taken on Thu Jan 30 19:20:44 2025 UTC)
The post did not include any evidence to substantiate its claim.
Lead Stories searched the websites of Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Raskin for evidence that either or both had filed impeachment articles against Trump. We found none, as can be seen here and here (archived here and here). There was also no such resolution posted to the congressional website for legislative activity, as can be seen here (archived here).
Previous Lead Stories fact checks on claims involving Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can be found here and on Jamie Raskin can be found here.
