Posted on 03/12/2006 2:36:34 PM PST by Blackirish
APN) ATLANTA 30 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bushs impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
There has been massive support for House Resolution 635 from a very vigorous network of grassroots activists and people committed to holding the Bush Administration accountable for its widespread abuses of power, US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) said in a statement prepared for Atlanta Progressive News.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) also released a book, Articles of Impeachment Against President Bush. The Center is extremely influential in high-profile court fights over issues such as wiretapping, the treatment of detainees by the US, and felon voting rights.
We have the book, we are calling for the impeachment of the President, and were supporting Conyerss resolution, Bill Goodman, CCR Legal Director, told Atlanta Progressive News.
The fraudulent basis on which the President got us into the war in Iraq; the obvious criminality of the warrantless wiretapping; indefinite detention in violation of the Constitution; torture as a part of indefinite detention and other ways; special rendition and torture, which is the outsourcing of torture... All of these violate various laws of the US, and they also violate his oath office which he swears to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, and hes doing just the opposite, hes undermining the Constitution and attempting to destroy certain parts of it, Goodman said.
Meanwhile, at least eight (8) US cities, including Arcata, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco, each in California; and Brookfield, Dummerston, Marlboro, Newfane, and Putney, each in Vermont, have passed resolutions calling for Bushs impeachment.
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If you think democrats will impeach him over the border issue, you obviously don't know how democrats cheat in elections. Illegal aliens are one of the democrats chief source of votes.
I see Sheila "When will we put a man on Mars again" Jackson Lee signed onto this goofy piece of legislation.
Go for it DUmocrats! Put up or shut up!
"30 US Reps arrested for treason, sedition"
Go for it members of The Democratic Crime Syndicate. You are on the road to extinction anyway.
I'd like to know that too. It should be made public and the Republican party should not allow them to run as Republicans in the next election. I guess I'm dreaming.
It is pathetic that these 30 lunatics have nothing better to do with their time than this foolishness? Talk about useless eaters? And they are our leaders??????
How about FACTS a$$hole...that's what's necessary to impeach a president.
Referred to the House Committee on Rules, of which Republican Congressman David Drier of California is the Chairman.
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Could have been impeached is more like it. But you have to get the votes to do it, without costing you at the next election.
If the Socialists(dems) get control this fall, and Iraq is still boiling, I expect them to try to impeach Bush in 2007.
The Socialists(Dems) have such a blind hatred for Pres. Bush they will go after him like they did to Newt Gingrich.
They went crazy when the unlikeable Newt Gingrich derailed their socialist agenda. They went after Gingrich through the press and conducted polls on his popularity as Speaker of the House, and kept hammering him until he resigned.
They have tried that with Bush, but it has taken 5 years to wear down his popularity.
When the UN basher John Bolton got the assignment from Bush to the UN that just about guaranteed an impeachment try by the anti American,UN loving Socialists (dems). - tom
Thought you might be interested in this.
CCR Legal Director Bill Goodman said, "On this, the day following Martin Luther King Day, we are saddened that the illegal electronic surveillance that once targeted that great American has again become characteristic of our present government. As was the case with Dr. King, this illegal activity is cloaked in the guise of national security. In reality, it reflects an attempt by the Bush Administration to exercise unchecked power without the inconvenient interference of the other co-equal branches of government."
According to CCR attorney Shayana Kadidal, "The mere existence of the program harms CCR and our attorneys because it serves to inhibit their ability to institute and effectively litigate these suits."
The Center for Constitutional Rights is represented in the suit by CCR attorneys Bill Goodman, Shayana Kadidal, and Michael Ratner, and CCR cooperating attorney David Cole. Also appearing as an attorney for CCR, is Professor Michael Avery, president of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), on behalf of the NLG.
http://tinyurl.com/rtdx3
I guess these people forgot about SEPERATION OF CHURCH & STATE since they are holding their meeting in a CHURCH!
New Orleans 1973 to Guantánamo 2006
A discussion on torture at the hands of the United States government.
WHAT: New Yorkers Unite to Fight U.S. Torture from New Orleans to Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo
WHEN: March 3, 2006, 6:30 to 8:30 PM
WHERE: Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Ave. Room 9T
(1 block west of Broadway)
Gita Gutierrez, CCR attorney representing Guantànamo detainees
John Bowman and Harold Taylor, Black Panthers tortured by New Orleans Law Enforcement in 1973
Henry Hank Jones, CDHR
Wayne Thompson, CDHR
Dr. Ron Daniels, Institute of the Black World 21st Century
Michael Ratner, CCR President
Bill Goodman, CCR Legal Director
HYPOCRITES!
Putney, Vermont: As of the census2 of 2000, there are 2,634 people, 958 households, and 603 families residing in the town.
MSM, thanks so much for reporting that they passed a resolution on whatever. That is certainly newsworthy. /sarc
Bill Goodman, CCR Legal Director
Since 1966, the Center for Constitutional Rights has remained dedicated to defending and advancing the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our work began on behalf of civil rights activists in the Jim Crow South and the racist North, and over the last four decades CCR has played an important role in many popular movements for social justice.
During the seventies CCR brought and won Monell v. Department of Social Services, which enabled private individuals and civil rights groups to enforce the Constitution in court. Throughout the seventies and eighties, we won groundbreaking victories for women's rights, including NOW v. Terry, the first case to establish a "buffer zone" around abortion clinics besieged by Operation Rescue.
In 1980, our Filártiga v. Peña-Irala created a right to sue for human rights violations occurring anywhere in the world under the then-obscure Alien Tort Claims Act. For 35 years, CCR has served as an incubator for progressive lawyering, producing numerous important precedents and innovative legal strategies that have become an established part of law and the legal culture.
Through efforts such as our Supermax Litigation Project and Immigrant Workers' Rights Project, we are vigilant in defense of the rights of those in our society who have the fewest resources and the least access to justice. As society changes, new social problems are constantly arising, even as old ones are solved. CCR will continue to evolve with these changes, seeking out new threats to the rights and well-being of citizens and devising new strategies in their defense.
The 'rats voted for it. They could have voted against it.
Now they want to cry about it some more.
People like Coyners' constitutents can't keep straight who voted for what.
"CCR does indeed support the defense of Lynne Stewart. What is at stake is the power of the government to eavesdrop on discussions between lawyer and client and, on a broader scale, an assault of historic proportions on the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments, carried out by the U.S. Department."
William Goodman, Legal Director
Conyers? He still out of jail?
Deported Muslims return to sue US govt for abuse
the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is handling the Muslim men's case, and the American Civil Liberties Union filed lawsuits asserting that President George W. Bush's authorization of wiretaps of U.S. citizens without court warrants was illegal.
The CCR said the conditions for the Muslims' return to the United States also included a ban on their speaking to anybody outside the case.
Ebrahim's brother Hany Ibrahim was due to arrive in New York on Monday, CCR legal director Bill Goodman said, and the other two would arrive at some point in the next two weeks.
Goodman said the restrictions on the four men were highly unusual in a civil case and a sign of what he called government "paranoia over Muslim and Middle Eastern men."
http://tinyurl.com/oavy6
the CCR announced that it is considering a lawsuit against the TSA. A number of those whose travel has been interfered with have signed on as possible plaintiffs, and CCR is inviting those with similar experiences to contact them. Meanwhile, the ACLU has posted a no-fly complaint form to fill out on its Web site for those who are harassed or prevented from flying.
CCR Legal Director William Goodman says, the U.S. government appears to be targeting citizens because of their beliefs.
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