Impeachment: To preserve democracy « Thread Started on Aug 2, 2007, 6:51am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Impeachment: To preserve democracy Wednesday, August 01, 2007read at source>
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/sto ... coll=7John Nichols' thought-provoking column, "Impeachable offenses? It isn't just Bush who should worry about his legacy" (July 28), challenges us all. As conservative scholar Bruce Fein discussed with Nichols and Bill Moyers on July 13, our current administration has consistently violated the Constitution, committing political crimes by "asserting powers and claiming that . . . Congress can't say it's illegal -- judges can't say this is illegal." America's Founders "intended impeachment less as a punishment for officeholders than as a protection against the dangerous expansion of executive authority," Nichols wrote.