ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT
AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH
ISBN 1-933633-08-5
$9.95 paperback original (144 pages)

IS THERE REALLY A LEGAL CASE AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH?

Saying aloud what’s being said behind the scenes in the corridors of power . . .

FEBRUARY 21, 2006 – In these highly-charged political times, it is the word that dare not speak its name:  impeachment. Democrats and other opponents of the President, as well as people in the media, are afraid to raise the topic for fear of being called too partisan or extreme.

But the startling revelation of the President’s warrantless wiretapping campaign may be the straw that broke the camel's back: In the halls of Congress and on the front pages of a growing number of mainstream periodicals, impeachment is being discussed more and more openly. And many leading constitutional scholars agree: there has never been so strong a case for impeachment since Richard Nixon.

In ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH, Michael Ratner, Bill Goodman and other experts at one of our nation's leading institutions of constitutional scholarship, the Center for Constitutional Rights, set out the legal arguments for impeachment in a clear, concise, and objective discussion. In four separate articles of impeachment detailing four separate charges –warrantless surveillance, misleading Congress on the reasons for the Iraq war, violating laws against torture, and subverting the Constitution’s separation of powers – it is, say the CCR attorneys, a case of black letter law, with abundant evidence.

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH details that evidence, the relevant laws and the legal precedents. It also explains what the Constitution says about impeachment – an informative discussion further illuminated by supplemental material that includes a history of impeachment, explanation of its procedures, and the previous articles of impeachment brought against Presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.

With leading Republicans calling for investigations of the domestic spying campaign, a special prosecutor investigating the suppression of evidence used to launch the Iraq war, and hearings on innumerable instances of torture, ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH may be more timely than any of us would like to admit.

About the . . .

Founded  in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights demonstrators in the South, the Center for Constitutional Rights is a non-profit legal  and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution  and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Most recently CCR has filed a case against the President and NSA for warrantless wiretapping.

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Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights

Michael Ratner has led the CCR as it focused its efforts on the constitutionality of indefinite detention and the restrictions on civil liberties as defined by the unfolding terms of a permanent war. He is currently co-counsel representing the Guantánamo detainees as well as post-9/11 immigration detainees in the U.S. Ratner has taught international human rights litigation at the Yale Law School, and currently teaches at the Columbia Law School. He has been President of the National Lawyers Guild, and Special Counsel to Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to assist in the prosecution of human rights crimes.

William H. Goodman, Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights

Bill Goodman’s landmark cases at CCR include Rasul v. Bush, representing the Guantánamo detainees before the Supreme Court, and Arar v. Ashcroft, the first case to challenge extraordinary rendition or outsourcing torture. Prior to joining CCR, Goodman was an active lawyer in private practice for over 33 years with the Detroit firm of Goodman, Eden, Millender and Bedrosian, the nation’s first racially integrated law partnership. In 1997-98, he was listed in the Best Lawyers in America. Goodman served as National President of the National Lawyers Guild in 1976-77. 

Shayana Kadidal, Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights

Shayana Kadidal is a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who works on the Center’s major case on the illegal NSA domestic spying program, CCR v. Bush, as well as the Center’s Patriot Act case, and testified before Congress this past spring on the material witness statute. He is also currently working on Turkmen v. Ashcroft, representing people swept up on immigration charges after 9/11 and unlawfully detained and abused. He graduated from Yale Law School, and clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.