California 2nd State To Introduce Bush Impeachment (Includes Cheney)

[kpete]

California 2nd State To Introduce Bush Impeachment
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 12:35 pm
Opinion: David Swanson

California Becomes Second State To Introduce Bush Impeachment

By David Swanson

Joining Illinois, California has become the second state in which a proposal to impeach President Bush has been introduced in the state legislature. And this one includes Cheney as well.

California Assemblyman Paul Koretz of Los Angeles (where the LA Times has now called for Cheney's resignation) has submitted amendments to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 39, calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney. The amendments reference Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives, which allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature.

The resolution, in the words of Koretz's press release, "bases the call for impeachment upon the Bush Administration intentionally misleading the Congress and the American people regarding the threat from Iraq in order to justify an unnecessary war that has cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives and casualties; exceeding constitutional authority to wage war by invading Iraq; exceeding constitutional authority by Federalizing the National Guard; conspiring to torture prisoners in violation of the 'Federal Torture Act' and indicating intent to continue such actions; spying on American citizens in violation of the 1978 Foreign Agency Surveillance Act; leaking and covering up the leak of the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson, and holding American citizens without charge or trial."

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0604/S00305.htm

[napi21]

1. I heard yesterday that a 3rd State was joining too.

New Hampshire I think it was. Personally I doubt this is all going to get anywhere, but it's doing good at sticking the needles in Shrub and making him really unconfortable!