Adriano Espaillat

Adriano Espaillat is the Democratic party representative from New York's 13th Congressional District in the U.S. House. Espaillat was first elected to the House in 2016. Espaillat is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He has introduced legislation to abolish ICE, co-sponsored the [[Green New Deal], and to impeach Donald Trump.

New York legislature

Espaillat is a former Democratic New York state legislator where he passed rent control legislation related to 1 million apartments.

2016 election

Espaillat was elected with the endorsement of Estevan Bassett-Nembhardi a New York City organizer of the Communist Party USA who has led community organizer for the Black Radical Congress, the Young Communist League, La Fuente and the Service Employees International Union.

Impeaching Trump

A group of six Democratic House members introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Wednesday November 15, 2017, claiming the president has violated federal law, the public trust and should be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors.

Democratic Reps. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, Al Green of Texas and Adriano Espaillat of New York introduced five articles of impeachment at a press conference at the Capitol Wednesday. The articles have two more co-sponsors: Reps. Marcia Fudge of Ohio and John Yarmuth of Kentucky.

The congressmen list a number of charges against the president, including: obstruction of justice, a violation of the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause, a violation of the Constitution’s domestic emoluments clause, undermining the federal judiciary process and undermining the press.

The articles focus primarily on Trump’s handing of the termination of former FBI Director James Comey, and potential conflicts of interest with Trump’s businesses and properties while he’s served as president.