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IMPEACH BUSH
Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania
Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 217-333-7954(voice)
217-244-1478(fax)
fboyle@law.uiuc.edu (personal comments only)
Impeachment Resolution Against President George W.
Bush
by Francis A. Boyle Professor of Law
January 17, 2003
108nd Congress H.Res.XX 1st Session
Impeaching George Walker Bush, President of the
United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January __, 2003
Mr./Ms. Y submitted the following resolution; which
was referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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A RESOLUTION
Impeaching George Walker Bush, President of the
United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Resolved, That George Walker Bush, President of the
United States is impeached for high crimes and
misdemeanors, and that the following articles of
impeachment be exhibited to the Senate:
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 George Walker Bush, President
of the United States of America, in maintenance and
support of its impeachment against him for high crimes
and misdemeanors.
ARTICLE I
In the conduct of the office of President of the
United States, George Walker Bush, 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 attempted to impose a police
state and a military dictatorship upon the people and
Republic of the United States of America by means of "a
long Train of Abuses and Usurpations" against the
Constitution since September 11, 2001. This subversive
conduct includes but is not limited to trying to suspend
the constitutional Writ of Habeas Corpus; ramming the
totalitarian U.S.A. Patriot Act through Congress; the
mass-round-up and incarceration of foreigners; kangaroo
courts; depriving at least two United States citizens of
their constitutional rights by means of military
incarceration; interference with the constitutional
right of defendants in criminal cases to lawyers;
violating and subverting the Posse Comitatus Act;
unlawful and unreasonable searches and seizures;
violating the First Amendments rights of the free
exercise of religion, freedom of speech, peaceable
assembly, and to petition the government for redress of
grievances; packing the federal judiciary with
hand-picked judges belonging to the totalitarian
Federalist Society and undermining the judicial
independence of the Constitution's Article III federal
court system; violating the Third and Fourth Geneva
Conventions and the U.S. War Crimes Act; violating the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and
the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination; reinstitution of the
infamous "Cointelpro" Program; violating the Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations, the Convention against
Torture, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
instituting the totalitarian Total Information Awareness
Program; and establishing a totalitarian Northern
Military Command for the United States of America
itself. In all of this George Walker Bush has acted in a
manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive
of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of
the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury
of the people of the United States.
Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct,
warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
ARTICLE II
In the conduct of the office of President of the
United States, George Walker Bush, 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 violated the Equal Protection
Clause of the Constitution. U.S. soldiers in the Middle
East are overwhelmingly poor White, Black, and Latino
and their military service is based on the coercion of a
system that has denied viable economic opportunities to
these classes of citizens. Under the Constitution, all
classes of citizens are guaranteed equal protection of
the laws, and calling on the poor and minorities to
fight a war for oil to preserve the lifestyles of the
wealthy power elite of this country is a denial of the
rights of these soldiers. In all of this George Walker
Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as
President and subversive of constitutional government,
to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice
and to the manifest injury of the people of the United
States.
Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct,
warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
ARTICLE III
In the conduct of the office of President of the
United States, George Walker Bush, 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 violated the U.S. Constitution,
federal law, and the United Nations Charter by bribing,
intimidating and threatening others, including the
members of the United Nations Security Council, to
support belligerent acts against Iraq. In all of this
George Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his
trust as President and subversive of constitutional
government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law
and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of
the United States.
Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct,
warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
ARTICLE IV
In the conduct of the office of President of the
United States, George Walker Bush, 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 prepared, planned, and
conspired to engage in a massive war and catastrophic
aggression against Iraq by employing methods of mass
destruction that will result in the killing of hundreds
of thousands of civilians, many of whom will be
children. This planning includes the threatened use of
nuclear weapons, and the use of such indiscriminate
weapons and massive killings by aerial bombardment, or
otherwise, of civilians, violates the Hague Regulations
on land warfare, the rules of customary international
law set forth in the Hague Rules of Air Warfare, the
Four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol I thereto,
the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and Principles, the
Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, and U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956). In all
of this George Walker Bush has acted in a manner
contrary to his trust as President and subversive of
constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the
cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of
the people of the United States.
Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct,
warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
ARTICLE V
In the conduct of the office of President of the
United States, George Walker Bush, 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 committed the United States to
acts of war without congressional consent and contrary
to the United Nations Charter and international law.
From September, 2001 through January, 2003, the
President embarked on a course of action that
systematically eliminated every option for peaceful
resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis. Once the
President approached Congress for consent to war, tens
of thousands of American soldiers' lives were in
jeopardy - rendering any substantive debate by Congress
meaningless. The President has not received a
Declaration of War by Congress, and in contravention of
the written word, the spirit, and the intent of the U.S.
Constitution has declared that he will go to war
regardless of the views of the American people. In
failing to seek and obtain a Declaration of War, George
Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust
as President and subversive of constitutional
government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law
and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of
the United States.
Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct,
warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
ARTICLE VI
In the conduct of the office of President of the
United States, George Walker Bush, 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 planned, prepared, and
conspired to commit crimes against the peace by leading
the United States into aggressive war against Iraq in
violation of Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter,
the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and Principles, the
Kellogg-Brand Pact, U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956),
numerous other international treaties and agreements,
and the Constitution of the United States. In all of
this George Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary
to his trust as President and subversive of
constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the
cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of
the people of the United States.
Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct,
warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office. |