Is there any reason a state AG can't indict Bush/Cheney/et al?

[jgraz]

I know that Brattleboro, VT is voting on this (which seems kind of silly to me), but why can't someone like, say, Jerry Brown bring actual legal charges against these monsters?

[lurky]

1. Not while in office, I don't think.

Another question: Will the inevitable last-day pardons apply only to federal laws, or will they be covered for state and local crimes, too?

[BuyingThyme]

2. As far as I know, he can.

[L. Coyote]

3. I think they can, but it may have to wait.

[Cleita]

4. I wish someone in the Iraqi government that we deposed who has

survived would file a complaint against Bush/Cheney with the Hague for a wrongful invasion and war crimes. It has to be a sovereign nation that files a complaint and it seems like a government that was unseated in a piratical raid would have a valid complaint. I don't think we will get much justice internally. Too many politicians who could are too afraid to do anything other than token efforts like Kucinich introducing impeachment proceedings.

[Subdivisions]

5. Millions of law enforcement officers, another

few million lawyers, tens of thousands of Constitutional scholars, millions of private investigators, and I could go on.

Why can't all these people do anything to ensure enforcement of laws we see broken nearly every day?

[JackRiddler]

6. They don't see money or a likelihood of success in it...

and they don't have the ovaries, it seems.