Impeachment

By David Swanson

Speech delivered in Portland, Maine, at rally organized by http://www.maineimpeach.org onApril 28th national day of impeachment events organized by http://www.a28.org

I want to thank Maine Impeach dot org for putting this event together. This is a wonderful crowd! The paper on grounds for impeachment drafted by Maine Lawyers for Democracy is incredibly well done: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/me

I spoke earlier today at a rally in Boston, Massachusetts, where one of the other read more

Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney. It’s time now for us to follow through by asking the rest of Congress to get on board with the American public, and by letting the media know where we stand.

http://www.impeachcheney.org

Ask your Congress Member to support impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney:
http://tinyurl.com/yttnxq

Ask members of the House Judiciary Committee and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lead, follow, read more

United for Peace and Justice
http://www.unitedforpeace.org

UFPJ Statement on Impeachment

George Bush, Dick Cheney and other top administration officials have committed impeachable offenses.

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By David Swanson

In 10 U.S. states, either this year or last year or both, the state legislature has introduced and considered, though not yet passed, a bill to petition the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Bush and Cheney. The question, of course, is what in the heck is wrong with the other 40 states? We can’t find a single state legislator with the decency to uphold the U.S. Constitution and at least introduce a resolution to impeach? Where are the states that created the Constitution? read more

By David Swanson

Imagine a president who violates numerous laws that predate his presidency. Imagine that Congress redundantly and repeatedly re-bans that criminal behavior. Imagine a president who repeatedly throws out the new bans with signing statements and continues to violate the same laws. This is the heart of the matter of the Bush “signing statements.” It is an unprecedented use of signing statements. And it is something that too many of us are unaware of and too many others read more

Answer Him

On March 9, a church basement in Washington, D.C., filled up with people eager to discuss and debate impeachment. Four speakers began the discussion with brief remarks: 27 year veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern, founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity; David Swanson, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org and former staffer for Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign; Dave Lindorff, author of “The Case for Impeachment”; and John Judge, former staffer of Rep. Cynthia read more

Videos by Barry Student

Gore Vidal and John Nichols.
Cindy Sheehan.
Daniel Ellsberg.
Michael Ratner.
Sunsara Taylor.
Questions/Answers.

Videos shot March 9, 2007, in Washington DC by William Hughes

John Judge is a former staffer for former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA):

Dave Lindorff is a journalist and the author of “The Case for Impeachment”:

David Swanson is a journalist, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, and also a former staffer for Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign:

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By David Swanson

There are those who believe that Bush and Cheney have committed impeachable offenses but that we should not try to impeach them. In this discussion, Bob McAdams lays out the arguments.

Then there are those, like myself, who think we need to put everything we’ve got into impeachment now. Here’s my case.

Meanwhile, there are a lot of people who see both sides and want to hash it out and mull it over, as in this read more