by Thom Hartmann, CommonDreams.org According to James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution,” if a President were to order or allow the “wanton removal of meritorious officers” such as US attorneys, such an action “would subject the President to impeachment and removal from his own high trust.” The issue of the firing of people within…
By Tom Engelhardt, tomdispatch.com Excuse me if, at 62, and well into my second era of protest against yet another distant, disastrous, and disabling American war, I express a little confusion. Was it actually like this in Rome while the legions were off fighting on the German frontiers? Was this the way it felt in…
By Ann Wright – t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Monday 26 March 2007 What irony! I was arrested last week in a Capitol Police abuse of power upon leaving a Congressional hearing on FBI abuses of our civil liberties. I was arrested on March 20, 2007 in a hallway…
Dick Cheney for president.” A second argument is that impeachment could never happen because even if Bush and Cheney were removed, it would mean Nancy Pelosi would become president, and Republicans would never allow this to happen. Some who raise these issues may be genuinely horrified at the prospect of a Cheney presidency (though we…
