WASHINGTON — Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, who has opposed President Donald Trump more often than anyone else among New Jersey’s Washington representatives, called for her colleagues to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

Watson Coleman, D-12th Dist., said Trump’s efforts to get around a U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking him from adding a question on citizenship to the census was the last straw.

“He defied the Congress and now he defies the courts, so he acts as if there are no checks and balances,” said Watson Coleman, D-12th Dist., told NJ Advance Media. “That makes him a despot and this is a democracy. I can’t take it any more.”

She also made her feelings known on Twitter.

“The president has shown a disregard not only for Congress’s oversight powers, but disregard for the rulings of the Supreme Court,” Watson Coleman tweeted. “I promised to fight for my constituents and that’s why I’m calling for an impeachment inquiry now.”

The President has shown a disregard not only for Congress's oversight powers, but disregard for the rulings of the Supreme Court. I promised to fight for my constituents and that's why I'm calling for an #ImpeachmentInquiryNow. Keep speaking up, keep standing up, keep showing up. pic.twitter.com/L9CKlCVKKL — Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (@RepBonnie) July 11, 2019

The Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, against Trump’s effort to add a citizenship question, which could hold down the response rate in states like New Jersey with large numbers of immigrants and therefore shift power and federal funds elsewhere, especially to Republican areas.

Despite the court ruling, Trump overruled his agencies and sought a way to add that question. On Thursday, he finally gave up that quest, saying the federal government would find other ways to collect citizenship data.

Watson Coleman joined Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-7th Dist., and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., as the Jersey lawmakers who support beginning the impeachment process. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-9th Dist., has refused to rule out impeachment, saying “every constitutional option should be on the table.”

She earlier expressed concern that the Republican-controlled Senate would acquit Trump no matter what the evidence, allowing the president to claim total vindication.

“It will be on the Senate to tell the people of this country why it wouldn’t convict an individual who has so many manifestations of high crimes and misdemeanors,” Watson Coleman said. “You tell the citizens of his country why you didn’t uphold your oath of office.”

Watson Coleman last year opposed Trump 93.3 percent of the time, according to Congressional Quarterly’s annual vote studies. That was more than any other House or Senate member but one, then-Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.

Jonathan D. Salant may be reached at jsalant@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @JDSalant or on Facebook. Find NJ.com Politics on Facebook.

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