Impeachment Resolution Against
President George W. Bush
by Francis A. Boyle
Professor
of Law
University of Illinois
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 Òa long Train of Abuses and UsurpationsÓ 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 ConstitutionÕs
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 ÒCointelproÓ 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 soldiersÕ 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.
(In memory of Congressman
Henry B. Gonzalez - R.I.P. - and H. Res. 86, 102nd Cong.,
1st Sess., Jan. 16, 1991.)
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All
it takes is ONE member of Congress to submit these
articles of impeachment.
Although they may not succeed
in a subjugated Congress let the record show that there
were those who spoke truth and who said, "NO!"
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