Impeachment is NOT an OPTION - It's a Duty

This is a letter I sent to my Congresspeople. It is important for to realize that their constituents understand their role in protecting the constitution - and we will hold them accountable when they do NOT fullfill that role.
I am writing today as a constituent to you as my representatives to urge you to support HR 333 - articles of impeachment.
I have copied the duties related to Congress and the military; and the section on Executive powers and the presidential oath.

President Bush and his cabinet, including former AG Gonzales, Karl Rove, VP Cheney have clearly crossed the line in so many areas. It is the DUTY of the COngress - not to judge whether or not an impeachment trial with 'interfere or take away' from the election next year. It is not the concern of Congress to judge whether or not 'we won't get anything else done.'

Laws have been broken. The constitution has been usurped. It is no longer your 'choice', I submit, but it is your DUTY to do your follow your constitutional oath and pass HR 333 - articles of Impeachment.

Powers of Congress:

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. (this means you can't lock people up for NO reason!)

This is the oath the president must take. It is clear he has shredded the constitution- from suspending habeas corpus to warrantless wiretaps, to holding Americans without access to a lawyer.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Section 2 - Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.


Vicki Walker
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