There is a decent chance that within the next month or two the New Mexico State Legislature will ask the U.S. House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney.  And there is the definite possibility that a Congress Member from New Mexico will take up the matter when it gets to Washington.  The Jefferson Manual, rules used by the U.S. House, allows for impeachment to be begun in this manner.  It only takes one state legislature.  No governor is needed.  One Congress Member, from the same state or any other, is needed to essentially acknowledge receipt of the state's petition.  Then impeachment begins.

Full article here.

"State Resolution: Avenue to Impeachment?" here.

Impeachment Watch Blogroll, updated 1/9/07, here. 

More soon,

Ticia

Native Virginian, Larry W. Bryant, calls upon the Virginia General Assembly to draft and introduce, in its upcoming session, a resolution to impeach President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. An excerpt:

Were Virginia freedom's hero Patrick Henry alive today, would you have any doubt that he'd give his wholehearted support to the nation's growing movement to impeach Pres. Bush and Vice Pres. Cheney? And if New Jersey-born ultra-patriot Tom Paine were living, would you be surprised to learn of his endorsement of that movement?

Bryant's full letter is available here.

More on the New Jersey impeachment movement is available here.

Impeachment Watch Blogroll, updated 1/9/07, is available here.

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Ticia

Daniel Ellsberg of “Pentagon Papers” fame, along with John Nichols, author of The Genius of Impeachment, were among the riveting speakers at an event at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., held on Jan. 4, 2007 entitled, "Voices of Impeachment."

Video of Daniel Ellsberg on the Impeachment of Bush-Cheney may be viewed here.

Video of John Nichols on the Need for Impeachment may be viewed here. 

Text coverage of the event, along with futher citations, may be read here.

Impeachment Watch Blogroll, updated 1/9/07, is available here.

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Ticia

Check out today's OpEd by DAVE LINDORFF (co-author of The Case for Impeachment) : Democrats are Reverting to Form  here.  An excerpt:

 Instead of grumbling about violations of the First, Fourth, Fifth and other Amendments, as Democrats have been doing so ineffectively now for five years, they could simply vote to revoke the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, approved almost without objection by both houses of Congress back in September 2001 (resolutions are not subject to veto). It is that resolution which Bush and his mob attorneys in the White House and the "Justice" Department have been citing as justification for the president’s assumption of dictatorial powers, such as the power to revoke habeas corpus rights of American citizens, the power to authorize torture and detention without trial, the power to kidnap and render people, the power to declare American citizens to be "unlawful combatants" devoid of citizenship rights, the power to invalidate duly passed acts of Congress, and the power to ignore federal laws like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Revoke the 2001 AUMF and the president would have no grounds, fraudulent and unconstitutional as they in any case are, to claim that the nation is in a state of war and that he, as commander in chief, is no longer constrained by the Constitution.

Ticia

Sunday Morning Coffee Report:

Protest: Check out the news article and take a look at the aerial photograph of people in the sand spelling out the word IMPEACH in the following video: 

Protestors Join in San Francisco to Impeach Bush.

Over 1,000 Join Beach Bash to voice their displeasure with the current administration. Over one thousand lined up on Ocean Beach Saturday morning to call for the impeachment of President Bush.

Roll Call: Academic Gary Leupp joins the battle:

Tufts History Professor calls upon John Conyers to impeach the President

Impeachment Watch Blogroll, updated 1/6/07 is available here. 

More Soon,

Ticia