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Author Message   ina Citizen Username: Ina Post Number: 344 Registered: 6-2001 Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 12:02 pm:        http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_steven_l_060422_bush_impeachment___t.htm Joining Illinois, California has become the second state in which a proposal to impeach President Bush has been introduced in the state legislature. And this one includes Cheney as well. California Assemblyman Paul Koretz of Los Angeles (where the LA Times has now called for Cheney's resignation) has submitted amendments to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 39, calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney. The amendments reference Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives, which allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature. More...   Darryl Strawberry Supporter Username: Strawberry Post Number: 7086 Registered: 10-2001 Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 5:17 pm:        moronic. Koretz is the same jerk off who pretty much led the drive to save Tookie Williams.. Another lib loser.   Foj Citizen Username: Foger Post Number: 1203 Registered: 9-2004 Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 9:55 pm:        Thanks for posting this INA. Aditionally http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0604/S00294.htm Illinois State Assembly Representatives Karen Yarborough, sponsor; Sara Feigenholtz and Eddie Washington are co-sponsors. Jefferson’s Revenge There is a little known set of supplementary rules for both the US Senate and House of Representatives developed by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was clear on his opposition to centralized federal power and frequently sought balances giving states greater liberties and rights. Jefferson’s rules, Section 603, state: Inception of impeachment proceedings in the House: … there are various methods of setting an impeachment in motion: by charges made on the floor on the responsibility of a Member or Delegate; by charges preferred by a memorial, which is usually referred to a committee for examination; by a resolution dropped in the hopper by a Member and referred to a committee; by a message from the President;by charges transmitted from the legislature of a State or territory or from a grand jury…” The language in Jefferson’s parliamentary guidelines is clear. State legislatures can set “an impeachment in motion” with a “Joint Resolution” approved by the legislature (both the state Senate and Assembly). No state has taken advantage of this provision. In fact, it is so obscure; the majority of Vermont legislators who asked for impeachment did so in a formal letter to the House of Representatives rather than invoking Jefferson’s Rule 603. Illinois Joint Resolution 125 Bush is charged with the following “high crimes and misdemeanors” in Representative Yarborough’s resolution (summary): 1. Ordering the National Security Agency to spy on American citizens without a warrant (a “felony”). 2. Violating the Torture Convention of the Geneva Conventions, “a treaty regarded as supreme law by the United States Constitution;” 3. Holding American and other citizens as “prisoners of war without a charge or trial; 4. Manipulating intelligence to start the Iraq war “resulting in the deaths of large numbers of Iraqi civilians and causing the United States to incur loss of life, diminished security and billions of dollars in unnecessary expenses; and, 5. Leaking “classified national secrets to further a political agenda” thus exposing U.S. agents “to potential harm and retribution while simultaneously refusing to potential harm and retribution while simultaneously refusing to investigate the matter.” <snip> RESOLVED, That George W. Bush, if found guilty of the charges contained herein, should be removed from office and disqualified to hold any other office in the United States. <snip> --------------------------------- Chicago Sun Times Dem asks Legislature to push Bush impeachment April 24, 2006 BY TRACY SWARTZ Sun-Times Springfield Bureau SPRINGFIELD -- Leave it to the Democratic-controlled state Legislature to find an obscure way to attempt to oust President Bush. State Rep. Karen Yarbrough (D-Maywood) has sponsored a resolution calling on the General Assembly to submit charges to the U.S. House so its lawmakers could begin impeachment proceedings. It would be the first state legislature to pass such a resolution, though the measure faces a dim future in a Republican-controlled Congress. http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-impeach24.html   Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 13844 Registered: 1-2003 Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 7:31 am:        I never really understood the fear of excessive federal power, but now I do. Jefferson was very insightful.