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Kucinich at House Judiciary Committee
hearing on Bush's 'imperial presidency"

Posted by Sabrina Eaton July 25, 2008 10:39AM

Categories: Congress, Kucinich

AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteThe Iraq War has been "the main contributing factor to the destruction of our domestic economy," Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich said today in his testimony before the House Judiciary committee hearing on the Bush "imperial presidency."

At a glance: Witness List

Dennis Kucinich
U.S. House of Representatives
10th District, OH

Maurice Hinchey
U.S. House of Representatives
22nd District, NY
Walter Jones
U.S. House of Representatives
3rd District, NC

. Brad Miller
U.S. House of Representatives
13th District, NC

Elizabeth Holtzman
Former U.S. House of Representatives
16th District, NY
Department of Justice

Bob Barr
Former U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
7th District, GA

Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson
Founder and President
High Roads for Human Rights

Stephen Presser
Raoul Berer Professor of Legal History
Northwestern University School of Law

Bruce Fein
Associate Deputy Attorney General, 1981-82
Chairman, American Freedom Agenda

Vincent Bugliosi
Author and Former Los Angeles County Prosecutor

Jeremy A. Rabkin
Professor of Law
George Mason University School of Law

Elliott Adams
President of the Board
Veterans for Peace

Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr.
Senior Counsel
Brennan Center for Jutice at NYU School of Law

A parade of Congressmen from both parties today debated whether President Bush had exceeded his authority under the constitution.

Although chairman John Conyers repeatedly stressed that the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Bush's "imperial presidency" did not pertain to impeachment, the word came up numerous times by those testifying.

Cleveland Democrat Rep. Dennis Kucinich , the first to testify, called the Iraq War "the main contributing factor to the destruction of our domestic economy" and he listed more than a dozen incidents where President Bush's justification for the has been "determined conclusively to be untrue."

Iraq was not actively seeking nuclear weapons capability, was not harboring terrorist organizations and was not willing to attack the United State, the Ohio congressmen said.

"I ask this committee to think, and then to act, in order to enable this Congress to right a very great wrong and to hold accountable those who have misled this nation," Kucinich said.

The top Republican member of the judiciary committee, Lamar Smith of Texas, said there is no evidence to support impeachment. He said Congress has no authority to forcibly remove the president because they dislike him or disapprove of his actions.

Smith compared today's hearing to "an anger-management class" and said it "reeks of partisanship."

"This hearing will not cause us to impeach the president; it will only serve to impeach our credibility," Smith said.

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Video of Kucinich in June reading his articles of impeachment against President Bush

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AP File Photo/Susan Walsh
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, and her entourage, are shown here a year ago when they came to Washington for a House Judiciary Committee committee looking into impeachment proceedings against the Bush administration.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/24/18519455.php
9am EDT - Friday - Live Broadcast - House Pre-Hearing on Impeachment - ON NO LIES RADIO

by Allan Rees
Thursday Jul 24th, 2008 12:37 PM

No Lies Radio will carry live the Pacifica Radio network (KPFA) broadcast of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Imperial Presidency and possible legal responses entitled "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations". This is a pre-impeachment hearing on Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment.

Click Here To Listen -- http://noliesradio.org
Coming Up Friday, July 25th at: 6am Pacific - 9am Eastern - 13:00 GMT
Repeated Saturday, July 26th at 9am Pacific - 12 Noon Eastern - 16:00 GMT
Impeachment Could Be Our Last Chance for 9/11 Truth, Stopping the Iran War and Martial Law!!. Listen to the Hearing! Then Act!
Read Rep. Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment. Call the Judiciary Committee and your Representative and Demand Impeachment Hearings Now. Be sure to mention Article 17 (illegal detention), Article 18 (Torture), Article 19 (Rendition) and Articles 33-35 regarding 9/11 Truth. Call 6 friends to do this also and ask them to call 6 friends...and this will go viral!!! If Conyers censors the hearing, ask for his resignation!

SPECIAL LIVE COVERAGE: No Lies Radio will carry live the Pacifica Radio network (KPFA) broadcast of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Imperial Presidency and possible legal responses entitled "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations".

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/24/18519455.php

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