Barron's: Congress Should Consider Impeachment

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Barron's: Congress Should Consider Impeachment

 

 

 

 

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Barron's: Congress Should Consider Impeachment (barrons.com) 24 Dec

2005 " Willful disregard of a law is potentially an impeachable

offense. It is at least as impeachable as having a sexual escapade

under the Oval Office desk and lying about it later. The members of

the House Judiciary Committee who staged the impeachment of President

Clinton ought to be as outraged at this situation. They ought to

investigate it, consider it carefully and report either a bill that

would change the wiretap laws to suit the president or a bill of

impeachment. " [barron's Magazine is a weekly publication from the

publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

 

 

 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/12/24/barrons-congre_n_12841.html

 

Barron's: Congress Should Consider Impeacment…

 

Barron's | THOMAS G. DONLAN | Posted December 24, 2005 11:33 AM

 

 

[...] Surely the " strict constructionists " on the Supreme Court and

the federal judiciary eventually will point out what a stretch this

is. The most important presidential responsibility under Article II is

that he must " take care that the laws be faithfully executed. " That

includes following the requirements of laws that limit executive

power. There's not much fidelity in an executive who debates and

lobbies Congress to shape a law to his liking and then goes beyond its

writ.

 

Willful disregard of a law is potentially an impeachable offense. It

is at least as impeachable as having a sexual escapade under the Oval

Office desk and lying about it later. The members of the House

Judiciary Committee who staged the impeachment of President Clinton

ought to be as outraged at this situation. They ought to investigate

it, consider it carefully and report either a bill that would change

the wiretap laws to suit the president or a bill of impeachment.

 

It is important to be clear that an impeachment case, if it comes to

that, would not be about wiretapping, or about a possible

Constitutional right not to be wiretapped. It would be about the power

of Congress to set wiretapping rules by law, and it is about the

obligation of the president to follow the rules in the Acts that he

and his predecessors signed into law. ...

 

Read the whole editorial here.