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NAACP leaders have voted in support of impeaching Donald Trump.

From The Guardian’s Lauren Gambino:

The leaders of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, unanimously voted to impeach Donald Trump, accusing the president of leading “one of the most racist and xenophobic administrations since the Jim Crow era.”

“The pattern of Trump’s misconduct is unmistakable and has proven time and time again, that he is unfit to serve as the president of this country,” NAACP president Derrick Johnson said in a statement after the vote.

While the resolution is unlike to have a legislative impact in Congress, it sends a clear message about from a legacy civil rights organization about where it stands on this president.

Johnson said he would press leaders in Congress to launch impeachment proceedings. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who addressed the conference earlier this week, has been wary of impeachment calls, warning that it could play into Trump’s hands in 2020.

NAACP President Derrick Johnson said Trump “has proven time and time again, that he is unfit to serve.” Photograph: Rebecca Cook/Reuters

The NAACP’s resolution committee, which meets annually at the group’s conference, held this year in Detroit, unanimously passed the resolution on Tuesday afternoon. It was introduced by Texas Congressman Al Green, who has brought articles of impeachment in Congress against the president.



“If you pass this resolution,” Green said in a rousing speech that drew cheers and chants, “you will be on record letting those who look through the vista of time know that at this time when others did not take a stand, the NAACAP took a stand.”



As Green spoke, the crowd chanted: “Get him out”.



The vote comes after Trump told four Congresswomen of color to “go back” to their countries and accused them of hating the US. The resolution also made reference to the administration’s ban on immigrants from majority-Muslim countries; its ban on transgender people in the military; Trump’s equivocation in the aftermath of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville; Trump calling Haiti and African nations “shithole countries”; the detention of children and separation of family at the US-Mexico border; and Trump’s most recent comments about the members of Congress.



One of the lawmakers targeted, congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, represents Detroit, where the conference is being held this year.

Tlaib, one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress who has long called for Trump’s impeachment, received a standing ovation when she addressed the conference.

“I’m not going nowhere,” she told the conference on Monday.” Not until I impeach this president.”