If you believe President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office, this day is for you.

July 2 heralded the arrival of the Impeachment March.

"Donald Trump has been in blatant violation of the Constitution from the day he was sworn into the office of President," the national event's website states.

This is a reference to the president's refusal to follow modern-day presidential tradition and divest his personal business holdings, thus creating untold financial conflicts of interest. Trump, a billionaire real-estate developer who has business dealings in countries around the world, faces lawsuits over the U.S. Constitution's emoluments clause, which forbids any person in federal office from accepting "any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."

The impeachment march's website adds:

"We believe president Trump has committed constitutional breaches, consistently lied, cheated, and enforces laws that primarily benefit him and his billionaire friends at the expense of the country."

Then there's the FBI's and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation into alleged Trump campaign connections to Russia's attack on the U.S. electoral process. By firing FBI Director James Comey for pursuing the investigation, write well-known activist lawyers Norman Eisen, Richard Painter and Laurence Tribe, Trump "challenged the very premises of our system of checks and balances and gave Congress reason to look into impeaching him for obstructing justice."

Impeachment marches are planned for nearly 50 cities across the country. Portland was supposed to be one of those cities, but its participation now appears to be in doubt. The Facebook page for the local march has been deleted, and Portland is not listed on the march's website.

-- Douglas Perry