Reconstruction: The Impeachment Of Andrew Johnson Quote. After the end of the Civil War, the challenge of how to rebuildthe former Confederate states continued to divide the country. http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/treasures_of_congress/page_14.html
Barbara Jordan Opening Statement To The House Judiciary Committee, Proceedings On The impeachmentOf Richard Nixon by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. July 25, 1974. http://gos.sbc.edu/j/jordan3.html
Extractions: by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan July 25, 1974 Mr. Chairman, I join my colleague Mr. Rangel in thanking you for giving the junior members of this committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquiry. Mr. Chairman, you are a strong man, and it has not been easy but we have tried as best we can to give you as much assistance as possible. Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, "We, the people". It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed, on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people". I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision I have finally been included in "We, the people". Today I am an inquisitor. I believe hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. The North Carolina ratification convention: "No one need be afraid that officers who commit oppression will pass with immunity."
Extractions: Web posted at: 6:37 p.m. EST (2337 GMT) WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, January 8) The Senate unanimously approved a road map Friday for continuing the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. With opening arguments set to begin next Thursday, all 100 senators gathered in their role as jurors to vote on the detailed bipartisan deal, worked out in a closed-door meeting earlier in the day. The plan does not explicitly settle the touchy issue of whether witnesses will be called to testify, but says a vote on witnesses will occur after both sides make their opening statements and there is questioning by senators. Also in this story: Details of the trial agreement Prosecution, defense react to rules
THE DECLARATION OF IMPEACHMENT THE DECLARATION OF impeachment. THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE INDEPENDENTPEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES Kayla Michaels, OpEdNews.Com. http://www.opednews.com/michaels_declaration_of_impeachment.htm
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Extractions: Web posted at: 5:53 p.m. EDT (1753 GMT) WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, February 9) As the Senate began its closed-door deliberations in the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, senators who wanted to open up the proceedings condemned Tuesday's vote rejecting a rule change to do that. They called the move to allow senators to put their final statements into the record after the trial "a great leap sideways." "I think that the motion that passed that would enable any senator who wants to to make public his or her statement in final deliberations ... represents a great leap sideways, not a step forward," said Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minnesota). "It is a very poor substitute for being in open session." Sen. Paul Wellstone
Impeachment Is Not Enough impeachment Is Not Enough. All of his lies are grounds for impeachment but impeachmentis not enough. impeachment followed by a pardon is an injustice. http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/impeachment.html
Extractions: By Glen Yeadon He lied and now the country is bogged down in two Vietnam like quagmires. Both Afghanistan and Iraq have rapidly descended into guerilla wars. The US forces in Afghanistan control little more than the city of Kabul. The countryside is controlled by the Taliban. The body count from Iraq is averaging one a day since Bush strutting like a peacock with a ego problem in a custom designed flight suit proclaimed the end of the Iraqi war on deck of the aircraft carrier, Abraham Lincoln. He lied that the aircraft carrier was still in route to port. It was circling offshore waiting for his photo op. He lied and it cost the taxpayers a million dollars for that photo op. It delayed the reunion of the sailors with their families by a full day. He lied about his military record, his rich daddy bought him a spot in the National Guards and then he deserted. He lied and good men are still dying in Iraq. He lied about the reason for war both the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars were wars for oil. Enron built a three billion-dollar power plant in northern India. A white elephant of sorts as it had no gas supply lines. To supply the plant and bail his friend Kenny boy out of the hole he promised the Taliban a carpet of gold for a pipeline across Afghanistan. If they refused, he threatened a carpet of bombs. They refused. They were bombed indiscriminately. Unocal is already seeking contracts and bids in Afghanistan for its gas pipeline. He lied and good people died in Afghanistan.
Clinton Impeachment Clinton impeachment. The Senate voted on the Articles of impeachment on February12, with a twothirds majority, or 67 Senators, required to convict. http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-politicalarchive-Clintonimpeach.htm
Extractions: Eagleton Digital Archive of American Politics Colonial Government and the Crown Revolution Constitution 'Era of Good Feeling ... September 11 Clinton Impeachment The impeachment of President Bill Clinton arose from a series of events following the filing of a lawsuit on May 6, 1994, by Paula Corbin Jones in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. In her complaint initiating the suit, Ms. Jones alleged violations of her federal civil rights in 1991 by President Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas and she was an Arkansas state employee. According to the allegations, Governor Clinton invited Ms. Jones to his hotel room where he made a crude sexual advance that she rejected. After Ms. Jones filed the lawsuit, the attorneys for President Clinton moved to delay any proceedings, contending that the Constitution required that any legal action be deferred until his term ended, an issue ultimately decided against the President by the Supreme Court of the United States in its decision of
Articles Of Impeachment Veterans For Peace Calls for the impeachment of George W. Bush For ImmediateRelease For further information contact Wilson Woody Powell, National http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Articles_of_Impeach_051003.htm
Richard M. Nixon - Articles Of Impeachment ARTICLES OF impeachment. Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct,warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office. Article 2. http://www.homeofheroes.com/presidents/speeches/nixon_articles_imp.html
Extractions: ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NAME OF ITSELF AND OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST RICHARD M. NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF ITS IMPEACHMENT AGAINST HIM FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. R ESOLVED, That Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment are to be exhibited to the Senate: In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice, in that: On June 17, 1972, and prior thereto, agents of the Committee for the Re-election of the President committed unlawful entry of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of securing political intelligence. Subsequent thereto, Richard M. Nixon, using the powers of his high office, engaged personally and through his close subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation of such illegal entry; to cover up, conceal and protect those responsible; and to conceal the existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities.
Extractions: MOSCOW (CNN) Blaming Boris Yeltsin for leaving Russia "in ruins," the country's opposition-dominated lower house of parliament opened impeachment proceedings on Thursday that could lead to the president's removal. The State Duma debate, due to last three days, but which could end earlier, will be followed by a vote on each of five charges.
Extractions: Alexander Hamilton writing in The Federalist Papers - Federalist No. 65 A very basic introduction to the concept of impeachment. A general introduction. An excellent site with numerous short articles explaining the process and history of impeachment and numerous links to reliable sources of information. This comprehensive page, sponsored by the JURIST , a site for law faculty in American law schools, provides an extensive list of links to primary and secondary resources, from both academic and popular sources. This web site, sponsored by Knight-Ridder, provides some basic introductory information on the process of Impeachment.
Independent Counsel Referral Comprehensive collection of Judiciary Committee documents, statements, and reports on the Clinton impeachment inquiry. http://www.house.gov/judiciary/icreport.htm
Extractions: The Senate agreed to a motion by Senator Gramm to indefinitely postpone the consideration of the Feinstein motion, two-thirds not having voted in the negative. (43 yeas; 56 nays). (Subsequently, pursuant to the unanimous consent request of February 11, 1999, the motion to suspend was withdrawn and the Feinstein motion to proceed fell). February 12, 1999
The Texas Constitution - Art 15 - IMPEACHMENT The Texas Constitution. Article 15 impeachment. Sec. 1 - POWER OF impeachmentSec. 2 - TRIAL OF impeachment OF CERTAIN OFFICERS BY SENATE Sec. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/txconst/articles/cn001500.html
Extractions: Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW JAKARTA, Indonesia JAKARTA, Indonesia The impeachment process against Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid is unstoppable, the Speaker of Parliament, Amien Rais, has told CNN. He said that a power-sharing arrangement may still be possible "after we have a new president," referring to the present Vice President, Megawati Sukarnoputri. Parliament voted on Wednesday to begin the impeachment process against Wahid that could see him out of office in August. Fanatical supporters of the president invaded the grounds of Parliament in Jakarta and paratroop reinforcements flew to Wahid's stronghold of East Java to dfeal with violent protests on Wednesday. "The violence, the troubles and turmoil in East Java are not natural," Rais said in an interview with CNN's Veronica Pedrosa. "It was engineered, it was quiete artificial. So if the authorities and the police take strong measures without any hesitation they will calm down and they will know they are playing a losing game. It is a matter of time, they will face reality and they will have to accept the reality."
