Federal court ruling contains grounds for impeachment
Over at DailyKos, Crazed Weasel has been browsing through Court decisions that would put many of us to sleep, and finding eye-popping nuggets buried under the cobwebs. His article begins like this:
Fri Nov 24, 2006 at 12:12:45 PM PST
The community is discussing impeachment proceedings against the president and possibly vice president, and it has become evident to me that the full text of Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s ruling from this summer is not widely known. I believe it is important to the community to have this information. Geek that I am, I believe the full decision is breathtaking reading. I quote the decision here, and encourage Kossacks to read it in full from the pdf link at the ACLU’s site:
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/26477lgl20060817.htmlDisclaimer: I am not an attorney or a judge. I just like reading momentous court decisions.Judge Taylor’s reasoning looks to my untrained eye ironclad in most particulars, with the exception of the discussion of standing to bring suit. This is the one point on which the court’s reasoning appears to be a bit of a stretch, and may be the point on which the Bush administration has based its appeal. God knows, they’d have to appeal something, because if this decision stands, it in effect lays out articles of impeachment, and does so almost entirely based on the texts of the applicable laws and the administration’s public statements.
“Crazed Weasel” then provides four “money” quotes, each of which he thinks might serve as grounds for an article of impeachment.
There are books aplenty written about the grounds for impeaching the President, but many people worry that impeaching Bush will just give us President Cheney, a scary potentiality. But Bob Fertik’s Impeachment FAQ website suggests this about VEEP Cheney:
Q. If we impeach Bush, wouldn’t President Cheney be worse?
A. We believe they must be impeached together, because they were full partners in every impeachable offense.
Therefore, let’s not allow Cheney-phobia to deter us!
Bob Schacht
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I believe that it is imperitive to restore the Democratic process to our system of government by demanding of our elected officials at the Federal level that there job is to uphold the Constitution and the Law. Bush/Cheney did not do this. Impeachment of both Bush/Cheney together is essential to restore honor, integrity, and America’s system of checks and balances. Any other argument is mute.
Rachel: I think you meant moot rather than mute.
Comment by Pat Blair — November 27, 2006 @ 11:05 am
The process of Impeachment of Bush/Cheney must be started without delay to move this country in a better direction.
Comment by Pat Blair — November 27, 2006 @ 11:08 am
SPELL CHECK IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA…THANKS, RACHEL, FOR THE CORRECTION.
Comment by Pat Blair — November 27, 2006 @ 5:02 pm