Wednesday is Day Eight since Representative Yassamin Ansari filed her April 15 articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. The resolution still carries twelve original Democratic cosponsors plus Ansari as the primary filer. [1] The parallel H.Res. 935 — introduced in December 2025 by Rep. Shri Thanedar — still has one Democratic cosponsor, Rep. Al Green of Texas. [2] The total signatory count across both resolutions is thirteen Democrats and zero Republicans. The paper's Tuesday declaration that the thread is formally dormant pending court action holds at Day Eight by the paper's convention: five consecutive weekdays without a Republican cosponsor, without a committee motion, and without a floor speech by leadership qualifies the thread as dormant.

No House Judiciary Committee hearing has been scheduled on either resolution. No floor vote has been set. Neither Speaker Johnson nor Majority Leader Scalise has spoken on either resolution in the public record since the Ansari launch. [3] The administration has not responded beyond the December 2025 "charade" statement from Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson on the Thanedar filing.

Ansari's articles run six counts: unauthorized war against Iran, violations of the law of armed conflict, negligence in sensitive-information handling, obstruction of congressional oversight, abuse of power, and conduct bringing disrepute. [3][4] Article 4 — Obstruction of Congressional Oversight — names the Pentagon press-access non-compliance the paper tracks in a parallel brief this edition at Day Thirteen.

Dormancy in the paper's idiom is specific. Any Republican cosponsor, any Judiciary Committee markup motion, any floor speech by leadership naming the resolution, any administration response beyond the December "charade" statement — each reopens the thread. Day Eight produced none of those.

The ceasefire dissolution Tuesday, the Earth Day theme Wednesday, the Israel-Lebanon round Thursday: none is an event the impeachment drafters control. Until a court ruling or a Republican cosponsor pulls the resolution back into the cycle, the paper's thread-tracker holds dormancy.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington