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Illinois Legislature moving to Impeach President Bush |
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by Michael
Email: Michael (nospam) impeachbush.biz (unverified!) |
30 Apr 2006
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The Illinois General Assembly is about to rock the nation. Members of state legislatures are normally not considered as having the ability to decide issues with a massive impact to the nation as a whole. Representative Karen A. Yarbrough of Illinois' 7th District is about to shatter that perception forever. Representative Yarbrough stumbled on a little known and never utlitized rule of the US House of Representatives, 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. From there, Illinois House Joint Resolution 125 (hereafter to be referred to as HJR0125) was born.
Detailing five specific charges against President Bush including one that is specified to be a felony, the complete text of HJR0125 is copied below at the end of this article. One of the interesting points is that one of the items, the one specified as a felony, that the NSA was directed by the President to spy on American citizens without warrant, is not in dispute. That fact should prove an interesting dilemma for a Republican controlled US House that clearly is not only loathe to initiate impeachment proceedings, but does not even want to thoroughly investigate any of the five items brought up by the Illinois Assembly as high crimes and/or misdemeanors. Should HJR0125 be passed by the Illinois General Assembly, the US House will be forced by House Rules to take up the issue of impeachment as a privileged bill, meaning it will take precedence over other House business.
The Illinois General Assembly joins a growing chorus of voices calling for censure or impeachment of President Bush including Democratic state committees in Vermont, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada and North Carolina as well as the residents themselves of seven towns in Vermont, seventy Vermont state legislators and Congressman John Conyers. The call for impeachment is starting to grow well beyond what could be considered a fringe movement. An ABC News/Washington Post Poll Conducted April 6-9 showed that 33% of Americans currently support Impeaching President Bush, coincidentally, only a similar amount supported impeaching Nixon at the start of the Watergate investigation. If and when Illinois HJR0125 hits the capitol and the individual charges are publicly investigated, that number is likely to grow rapidly. Combined with the very real likelihood that Rove is about to be indicted in the LeakGate investigation, and Bush is in real trouble beyond his plummeting poll numbers. His cronies in the Republican dominated congress will probably save him from the embarassment of an impeachment conviction, for now, but his Presidency will be all but finished. |
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_steven_l_060422_bush_impeachment___t.htm
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Re: Illinois Legislature moving to Impeach President Bush |
by AWARE
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01 May 2006
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Online Petition to Impeach Bush
by AWARE
Email: jandurl (nospam) insightbb.com (verified) 28 Apr 2006
Modified: 05:59:47 PM
Illinois Coalition for Peace and Justice is assisting with an online petition to gather signature to Impeach Bush.
Now is your opportunity to sign on!
Impeachment Resolution Online Petition
Sponsored by: Northbrook Peace Committee
Date(s): 2006-05-15 - 2006-05-15
Sign the online petion calling for the impeachment of George Bush. The petitions will be physically delivered to the offices of local state representatives on a date to be announced.
The online petition is located on the ICPJ site's new petition center: www.ilcpj.org
NOTE: The last day we will be collecting signatures is May 15th, 2006.
More Information: www.ilcpj.org/petitions/petition-info.php?pid=1 |
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Impeachment Momentum Builds |
by Matthew Rothschild
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05 May 2006
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Slowly and steadily, the drive for the impeachment of George W. Bush is building.
Neil Young’s song, “Impeach the President,” has given the effort increasing visibility.
And a story in the Boston Globe by Charlie Savage on April 30 showed just how necessary the impeachment drive is.
“President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with the Constitution,” Savage wrote. Bush has done so by issuing so-called signing statements on “more than one out of every ten bills he has signed.”
Administration spokesmen told Savage that Bush “will faithfully execute the law in a manner that is consistent with the Constitution.”
But there’s the rub.
It’s not up to him to judge that.
It’s up to the courts.
He is sworn to execute the laws, not to sit on them.
Fortunately, Americans all over the country are rising up against this imperial President.
Thirty-seven members of Congress are now on board the Conyers resolution to create a select committee to investigate grounds for impeachment. (You can find the list at afterdowningstreet.org.)
Three state legislatures have passed resolutions urging Congress to proceed with impeachment, using a procedure that Thomas Jefferson laid out in his legislative manual. Those three are Vermont, Illinois, and California (and the latter has called for impeaching Cheney, too, an eminently sensible idea!).
More than a dozen towns and cities around the country have called for impeachment, according to www.impeachpac.org.
And five Vermont townships just delivered petitions to Speaker Dennis Hastert to begin impeachment proceedings.
The cries for impeachment need to grow louder still, though, if we are to restrain this President from even more lawlessness.
Matthew Rothschild has been with The Progressive since 1983. His McCarthyism Watch web column (http://progressive.org/mccarthy) has chronicled more than 150 incidents of repression since 9/11.
© 2006 The Progressive
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Re: Illinois Legislature moving to Impeach President Bush |
by Peach Bush
Michael (nospam) Impeachbush.biz (unverified) |
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06 May 2006
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I'm Peach Bush and co-host of a online community named, Impeach Them All on http://care2.com
the link to our group is http://care2.com/c2c/group/Impeachbush
We now have 67 members ,
Join us
I am adding information daily, post your information and I can include it in to the site
http://impeachbush.biz
ideas are needed
The best website to learn about the Impeachment Process is http://ImpeachBush.biz
and all other viable links are listed on my site
All we need is one state to pass impeachment resolution is what I have read !
and our home state of Illinois has already introduced Legislation HJR0125
as posted in the initial post.
We have a REAL opportunity
and now we must get it passed
time 2 contact state representatives
and impeach several of them
so that we can put an end to this nitemare.
Listen to this new song by Pink
Dear Mr. President
http://www.radionewsamerica.com/media/kynd/president.mp3 |
