IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 405 
Impeaching Matthew M. Graves, United States Attorney for the District 
of Columbia, for endangering, compromising, and undermining the justice 
system of the United States by facilitating the explosion of violent crime 
in the Nation’s capital. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 16, 2023 
Ms. GREENE of Georgia submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Impeaching Matthew M. Graves, United States Attorney for 
the District of Columbia, for endangering, compromising, 
and undermining the justice system of the United States 
by facilitating the explosion of violent crime in the Na-
tion’s capital. 
Resolved, That Matthew M. Graves, United States At-
torney for the District of Columbia, is impeached for en-
dangering, compromising, and undermining the justice 
system of the United States by facilitating the explosion 
of violent crime in the Nation’s capital, and that the fol-
lowing articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United 
States Senate: 
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•HRES 405 IH 
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of 
Representatives of the United States of America in the 
name of itself and of the people of the United States of 
America, against Matthew M. Graves, United States At-
torney for the District of Columbia, in maintenance and 
support of its impeachment against him for endangering, 
compromising, and undermining the justice system of the 
United States by facilitating the explosion of violent crime 
in the Nation’s capital. 
The Constitution provides that the House of Rep-
resentatives ‘‘shall have the sole Power of Impeachment’’ 
and that a United States Attorney, as a civil officer of 
the United States, ‘‘shall be removed from Office on Im-
peachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or 
other high Crimes and Misdemeanors’’. 
In his conduct as United States Attorney for the Dis-
trict of Columbia, in violation of his constitutional oath 
faithfully to execute the office of United States Attorney 
for the District of Columbia, and, to the best of his ability, 
preserve, protect, and defend, the Constitution of the 
United States, Matthew M. Graves continues to materially 
endanger the justice system of the United States and em-
power violent criminals to terrorize Washington, DC. 
ARTICLE I 
Rather than adhering to an oath he took to defend 
and secure our country and uphold the Constitution when 
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•HRES 405 IH 
he was sworn in as United States Attorney for the District 
of Columbia, Matthew M. Graves has declined to prosecute 
approximately 67 percent of people arrested by police offi-
cers in 2022, almost doubling the declination rate within 
the last seven years. 
Matthew M. Graves has failed to uphold his oath and 
has instead overseen a denigration of the principles of our 
justice system by allowing the District of Columbia to be 
on pace to set records for crime. 
According to police data, crime is up 23 percent on 
U.S. Attorney Graves’s watch. Homicides are up 30 per-
cent. Murders in Washington, DC, exceeded 200 in 2021 
and 2022 for the first time since 2003. 
Instead of preventing prosecuting these crimes, 
Graves’s office has hired more attorneys solely to pros-
ecute more than 1,000 individuals who have been arrested 
for political protest or touring the U.S. Capitol. United 
States Attorney Graves has perversely and unconstitution-
ally sought lengthy pretrial detention for dozens these po-
litical opponents, including individuals not accused of com-
mitting any violence. In doing so, Graves is systematically 
criminalizing political dissent. 
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco admitted that 
the Department of Justice has pulled prosecutors from 
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•HRES 405 IH 
cases around the country in order to prosecute such cases 
in Washington, DC, instead of serious crime. 
Matthew M. Graves has engaged in abuse of power 
by becoming a tool of the Biden regime’s pro-crime, anti- 
democracy agenda. 
ARTICLE II 
Matthew M. Graves, in his inability to enforce the 
law, has engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompat-
ible with his duties as a civil officer of the United States. 
Matthew M. Graves, in his failure to uphold the oath 
he took, has, by his actions, lost the trust of citizens of 
the United States to faithfully execute the laws of the 
United States. 
Matthew M. Graves, by such conduct, has dem-
onstrated that he will remain a threat to the justice system 
of the United States of America if allowed to remain in 
office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible 
with self-governance and the rule of law. 
Wherefore, Matthew M. Graves, thus warrants im-
peachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualifica-
tion to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit 
under the United States. 
Æ 
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