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November 15, 2007

The word is beginning to be heard across the country: Impeachment.

Perhaps the pressure on Pelosi and Conyers will build to the point that testimony on articles of impeachment will soon commence in the House Judiciary Committee. There is hope the House will get the hell out of the way of the Constitution and "allow" the process to begin.

As reported today at afterdowningstreet.org the ACLU of Southern California has called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for High Crimes and Misdemeanors arising out of their abuse of power and numerous violations of the Constitution. The Board of Directors of the ACLU-SC voted on November 14, 2007 without objection (and one abstention) to call on Congress to promptly convene impeachment hearings. The ACLU-SC will shortly release a report detailing the grounds for impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

Also, Theodore Lowi, a professor of American Institutions at Cornell University and author of several books including "The End of Liberalism" said today: "Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Judiciary Chair John Conyers and the vast majority of Democrats in Congress are making a grave Constitutional error in keeping impeachment off the table. Impeachment does not mean removal. It means putting the accused before the bar of Judgment judgment. Clinton was impeached but not removed."

Lowi added, "Impeachment can be a method of achieving a modicum of balance between the branches of government. The Bush administration has totally thrown that balance off. Some of the same individuals who helped impeach Clinton, reducing the power of the executive then, are now backing the notion of a 'unitary executive.' We are moving beyond the 'imperial president' to what Clinton Rossiter warned us of in 1948:
'Constitutional dictatorship.'"

The bad news regarding the National ACLU's position on impeaching Bush is found in an interview with ACLU national president Nadine Strossen. The interview was conducted by David Swanson.

DS: "Do you think George Bush should be impeached?"
NS: "I think there is a case for him to be impeached, but I don't think it would be a good idea. The reason I say there is a case because partly under the Constitution it’s high crimes and misdemeanors, which are not defined and the latest precedent we have is having a blow job in the Oval Office and lying about it is considered to be a high crime and misdemeanor. Well, Bush, has clearly lied to Congress, the American People, to the media about much more serious infractions and violations of the Constitution. He’s had a view that as Commander-in-Chief he can do whatever he wants, that he’s above the law, that he doesn't have to abide by the laws that are duly passed by Congress. In one breath he is signing them, and in another breath he is saying he doesn't have to follow them. So, I think if what Clinton did can be considered a high crime and misdemeanor then what Bush did could be.

"Do I think it would be a good idea to impeach him? I think it would be a terrible idea to impeach him. Among other reasons, I think it would have the effect of placing disproportionate responsibility on to him when a lot of the blame for the violations I’m talking about rests in the hands of Congress. Congress did not have to vote for the Patriot Act, as they did almost unanimously in the Senate. Congress did not have to expand his domestic wire-tapping power this summer, even beyond what he was initially doing in his secret program. Congress did not have to roll over and play dead with respect to torture and rendition and Guantanamo and all the other human rights disasters. They really bear a lot of responsibility and we should not be letting them off the hook. By going after Bush, it deflects responsibility from Congress, it deflects responsibility from the courts, which have been issuing a lot of bad decisions, I think. It also deflects responsibility from the Democrats. It makes it too much of a partisan issue. There is bipartisan responsibility here. For that reason I strongly oppose it. I’m not speaking for the ACLU, I know some people in the ACLU would like to see it."

A call to the national office of the ACLU might help expand Ms. Strossen's point of view. The number is 1-888-567-ACLU. That is also the number that will handle your membership request. You are a member, right?

- MDM

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