High Court ruling may delay war crimes trials By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. In its third rebuke of the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners, the…
Capitol Briefing, Ben Pershing — The House voted today by a comfortable margin to refer 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush to the Judiciary Committee, as the measure’s chief sponsor vowed to bring the issue up again if the panel does not agree to hold hearings. On a 251-166 vote, the chamber elected to…
Democrats.com House Sends Impeachment to John Conyers by Bob Fertik By a bipartisan vote of 251-166, the full House of Representatives sent Dennis Kucinich’s 35 Articles of Impeachment to the Judiciary Committee. That means Chairman John Conyers now has the power to decide whether to hold impeachment hearings – or not. Incredibly, 24 Republicans voted…
impeachforpeace.org by mikael rudolph The day after colleague Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced a bill on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach President George W. Bush, bill cosigner Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) also became the 27th cosigner of H. Res. 333 calling for the impeachment of Vice President Richard Cheney. Wexler’s…
