Former Assistant US Attorney: Obama can be impeached now if the public demands it, we can prove a 1,000 impeachable offenses
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Obama Can Be Impeached Now If Population Demands It, Writes Former Assistant U.S. Attorney
June 2nd, 2014 • 9:54 AM
“Obama’s
behavior would easily satisfy the Constitution’s standard for removing a
president from power,” wrote Andrew C. McCarthy in a Sunday New York
Post op-ed entitled, “Obama Knows He Can Ignore Scandal With Impunity [1].”
McCarthy is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the 1993
World Trade Center terrorists and is coming out with a book next week
called “Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s
Impeachment.”
McCarthy says that unless the people of the United States create the demand for impeachment, it’s not going to happen in the current House and Senate, so Obama continues to commit lawless acts “with impunity.” He says that he will be touring parts of the United States after the book comes out on June 3.
He explained in an earlier article this week, “Faithless Execution argues that we are experiencing a different kind of presidential lawlessness than our nation has ever known: a systematic undermining of our governing framework, willfully carried out by a president who made no secret of his intention to fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
In the New York Post piece, he says:
“President Obama’s record of lawlessness is prodigious. There is the assumption of a power to rule by presidential decree unilaterally….” He lists the lies in Obamacare, the “absence of congressional authorization, [in which] the president instigated an unprovoked and ultimately disastrous war in Libya, empowering virulently anti-American Islamic supremacists.” Recess appointments, ignoring court orders.
“The list goes on. In fact, Obama’s behavior would easily satisfy the Constitution’s standard for removing a president from power …. You can prove a thousand impeachable offenses, but absent the public will to remove the president from power, impeachment is a non-starter. The political case for ousting a president must be built.”
McCarthy gets to the crux of the matter, that “as a matter of law, a president is impeachable for high crimes and misdemeanors,” but “the term does not refer to crimes and misdemeanors as we commonly understand them i.e., to ordinary criminal offenses listed in the penal code. Instead, “high crimes and misdemeanors” are what Alexander Hamilton described as the “misconduct of public men, or … the abuse or violation of some public trust.” They are best understood, he elaborated, as “political wrongs” because “they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”
McCarthy is active in a number of conservative organizations and think tanks; his article is posted here [1].
McCarthy says that unless the people of the United States create the demand for impeachment, it’s not going to happen in the current House and Senate, so Obama continues to commit lawless acts “with impunity.” He says that he will be touring parts of the United States after the book comes out on June 3.
He explained in an earlier article this week, “Faithless Execution argues that we are experiencing a different kind of presidential lawlessness than our nation has ever known: a systematic undermining of our governing framework, willfully carried out by a president who made no secret of his intention to fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
In the New York Post piece, he says:
“President Obama’s record of lawlessness is prodigious. There is the assumption of a power to rule by presidential decree unilaterally….” He lists the lies in Obamacare, the “absence of congressional authorization, [in which] the president instigated an unprovoked and ultimately disastrous war in Libya, empowering virulently anti-American Islamic supremacists.” Recess appointments, ignoring court orders.
“The list goes on. In fact, Obama’s behavior would easily satisfy the Constitution’s standard for removing a president from power …. You can prove a thousand impeachable offenses, but absent the public will to remove the president from power, impeachment is a non-starter. The political case for ousting a president must be built.”
McCarthy gets to the crux of the matter, that “as a matter of law, a president is impeachable for high crimes and misdemeanors,” but “the term does not refer to crimes and misdemeanors as we commonly understand them i.e., to ordinary criminal offenses listed in the penal code. Instead, “high crimes and misdemeanors” are what Alexander Hamilton described as the “misconduct of public men, or … the abuse or violation of some public trust.” They are best understood, he elaborated, as “political wrongs” because “they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”
McCarthy is active in a number of conservative organizations and think tanks; his article is posted here [1].
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