FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT IMPEACHMENT By Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice Why would we want a President Cheney? Or why would we want a new Republican who could run as an incumbent? Or why would we want a President Pelosi? We propose impeaching Cheney first or together with Bush. The first Articles of Impeachment…
By Christine Kearney, Reuters A Pakistani man who says he was abused in detention after the September 11 attacks can name the FBI director and former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft in his lawsuit against the government, an appeals court ruled on Thursday. Javaid Iqbal, a Muslim, was held for more than a year at…
Michael Roston, Raw Story Late on Thursday, President George W. Bush signed into law the “Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007.” The bill, which was introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), removed a controversial provision at the heart of the current US Attorneys controversy that allowed the Attorney General to appoint US Attorneys…
The Associated Press The American Civil Liberties Union renewed its challenge Thursday against the Bush administration’s filing of secret materials to a federal appeals court that will rule on its warrantless surveillance program. The government has filed the papers with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the ACLU wants those documents unsealed. The…
