Impeaching Gonzales
Like Bob Edgar, I too was around at the time of the Nixon impeachment. The question becomes, "What are high crimes and misdemeanors?" Nixon's destruction of the Constitution (including his trashing of the Justice Department) certainly was.
By those lights, Gonzales should be joined in the impeachment dock by his boss, Bush. The attorney general may have politicized the Justice Department, but this pales in contrast to Bush's widespread and willful disregard of constitutional provisions including:
(1) The congressional power to declare war
(2) The first amendment's guarantee of freedom of religion and (paraphrasing) freedom from religion
(3) The fourth amendment's guarantees against unlawful imprisonments, searches and seizures, as shown by Guantanamo, and various provisions of the Patriot Act
(4) The president's expressed defiance of carrying out the law, as shown by his so-called "signing statements."
(5) The president's war against U.S. workers, including threats to send troops against them on the West Coast and other acts to suppress their rights
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Mark Gruenberg | 
