Judiciary Committee should move to impeach Bush and Cheney (Elizabeth Holtzman)

[kpete]

Posted on Sun, Jan. 27, 2008


Judiciary Committee should move to impeach Bush and Cheney

Elizabeth Holtzman
served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981

Since mid-December, members of the House Judiciary Committee Robert Wexler (D., Fla.), Luis Gutierrez (D., Ill.) and Tammy Baldwin (D., Wis.) have called for hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Cheney.

This should not be surprising, given the strength of the case for impeachment. What's surprising is that it took so long for members of this committee, normally tasked with holding impeachment proceedings, to call for them.

They face huge political resistance on Capitol Hill. But they aren't alone. Other Democratic members are joining them. Former senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern recently published an op-ed demanding impeachment proceedings for both Bush and Cheney. Bruce Fein, a Republican who served in the Reagan Justice Department, and many other constitutional scholars also argue for impeachment.

There is more than ample justification for impeachment. The Constitution specifies the grounds as treason, bribery or "high crimes and misdemeanors," a term that means "great and dangerous offenses that subvert the Constitution." As the House Judiciary Committee determined during Watergate, impeachment is warranted when a president puts himself above the law and gravely abuses power.

Have Bush and Cheney done that?

more at:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/20080127_Judiciary_Committee_should_move_to_impeach_Bush_and_Cheney.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Have Bush and Cheney done that?

Does the sun rise in the east?

[ursi]

2. This is a person who remembers what it was like to really impeach a President

[ClassWarrior]

3. .

[Senator]

4. They Are Impotent To Do Anything Else

Without impeachment, "Rule By Signing Statement" still reigns.

Pelosi, Reid, and the "New Majority" are irrelevant.

They've put legislating itself "off the table."

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[L. Coyote]

5. 216,864 = = = = Promote the petition

http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com

[L. Coyote]

6. 219,666