Monday, August 20, 2007

Impeach Alberto Gonzales... He's Bush's Attorney Generally, Not Our Attorney General! [New York Times]

COMPLETELY DERELICT IN HIS DUTIES...
Can somebody confirm if he's even a lawyer?
NY TIMES:
Members of Congress should keep in mind... the Founders gave them the impeachment power for a reason — and Mr. Gonzales’s malfeasance is just the sort they were worried about. The Constitution provides for impeachment for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Not a clear formula, but it wasn’t meant to be...
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The phrase “other high crimes and misdemeanors” was intended to give Congress leeway.

Impeachment... was promoted as a tool for Congress to rein in any officeholder who “dares to abuse the power vested in him by the people.”
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Congress has heard extensive testimony about how Mr. Gonzales’s Justice Department has become an arm of [the Republican Party], choosing lawyers for nonpartisan positions based on politics, and bringing cases — including prosecutions that have put people in jail — to help Republicans win elections.

Mr. Gonzales’s repeated false and misleading statements to Congress are also impeachable conduct. James Iredell, whom George Washington would later appoint to the Supreme Court, told North Carolina’s ratification convention that “giving false information to the Senate” was the sort of act “of great injury to the community” that warranted impeachment.

The United States attorneys scandal is also the sort of abuse the founders worried about. Top prosecutors, most with sterling records, were apparently fired because they refused to let partisan politics guide their decisions about whether to prosecute. Madison, the father of the Constitution, noted in a speech to the first Congress that “wanton removal of meritorious officers would subject” an official to impeachment...
James Madison, he knew his Shyite... Nancy: Rebuttal? Well, get to work-on-it, Madame-lady! What-ever, please, Herb.

1 Comments:

Blogger tbone-er-roni said...

Well, Clinton did lie to a Grand Jury and was only impeached by the House not the Senate. I would say that is as bad as "providing false information" to the Senate, wouldn't you Herb? I can't stand Gonzalez either but the real person that should be removed is Cheney. He is breaking laws right and left! Gonzlez is worthless. Why you don't answer your user's comments anymore? Too big for that aren't you Herb?

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