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UPDATE: ImpeachForPeace.org, World Can’t Wait, and After Downing Street to present more DC Representatives with “Do-It-Yourself” Impeachment Petitions
ImpeachForPeace.org’s plans to head to Washington DC to meet with Representatives on Thursday, July 26th are taking shape. We’ll deliver thousands of petitions formally initiating the impeachment of Vice President Richard Cheney.
ImpeachForPeace.org members and David Swanson of After Downing Street, besides meeting with Rep. Maxine Waters and the offices of Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Robert Wexler, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, will also be meeting with Rep. Keith Ellison and the office of Rep. Jerrold Nadler. ImpeachForPeace.org also hopes that Rep. John Conyers will find the time to meet with us.
As noted previously, these House Reps are part of the Judiciary Committee, which currently has a resolution (House Resolution 333) to impeach Vice President Cheney. We’ll be presenting the petitions and urging these representatives to support impeachment on behalf of the majority of Americans who have indicated that they support the impeachment of Vice President Cheney.
“Do-It-Yourself” Impeachment Petitions are described under the House Rules, Jefferson’s Manual Section LIII. They constitute a legal means of initiating the impeachment process, and were successfully used in 1830 to impeach Federal Judge James Peck. This method is the only means by which an individual citizen can legally initiate the impeachment of a federal official. While only one such citizen’s petition is necessary to begin the process, thousands of these are to be delivered on Friday.
It’s not too late to send in your DIY Impeachment Memorial! Even if we don’t get it before we leave for DC on Wednesday evening, we’ll still make sure it gets to a representative in the house.