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GOP Bill Clears Path for Obama's Impeachment

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:31:55 CDT

Calls for President Obama's impeachment have come down the pike before, most recently from Grover Norquist . This time a Republican representative—North Carolina's Walter Jones—has introduced a House resolution that would authorize Obama's impeachment for using the military without official permission from Congress, RawStory reports. Jones, a former Democrat...

Grover Norquist: Soon It's Time to Impeach Obama

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:34:30 CST

Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist sat down with the National Journal recently to talk tax cuts, Republican majorities, and ... the impeachment of President Obama. Let's start with Norquist's ideal outcome in the 2012 elections: "If the Republicans have the House, Senate, and the presidency ... you extend the Bush tax cuts out...

Bachmann: We'll Impeach If Obama Uses 14th Amendment

Kevin Spak — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:18:05 CDT

Michele Bachmann had some strong words today about the idea that Barack Obama could raise the debt ceiling himself with the 14th Amendment, saying it would make him “effectively a dictator,” and lead to his impeachment. “It's Congress that does the spending,” she told CNN . “The president is prohibited to...

GOP Lawyer Writes Articles of Impeachment for Obama

Kevin Spak — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:02:17 CDT

A Reagan-era Justice Department official has drafted an article of impeachment for President Obama, arguing that by intervening in Libya without congressional approval, he crossed a legal line. “Barack Hussein Obama has mocked the rule of law, endangered the very existence of the Republic and the liberties of the people,...

Biden's Old 'Impeach Bush' Speech Turned Against Him

John Johnson — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:00:36 CDT

Churn through enough news sites today, and you're bound to come across a 2007 clip of Joe Biden promising to lead an impeachment of President Bush if he attacks Iran without getting the approval of Congress, notes Mediaite . It's leading to charges of Libya hypocrisy along these lines from Ed...

Carl Levin: Um, Let's Not Impeach Obama

Kevin Spak — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:04:57 CDT

A top Senate Democrat tried to throw some cold water on the talk of impeaching President Obama over the military action in Libya, saying that if what Obama did was impeachable, so was every US military operation since World War II. “That one-day kind of story, which is all it...

Plan in Iowa to Impeach Judges Is Dangerous

Matt Cantor — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:24:55 CST

Throughout US history, “no matter how controversial the case, no state or federal judge has been impeached for an opinion issued from the bench,” writes Bert Brandenburg in the Washington Post . But now, activists in Iowa want to impeach the justices who voted to allow same-sex marriage in the state—...

Senate Impeaches La. Judge, Yanks Him From Bench

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:15:05 CST

The Senate has voted unanimously to convict US District Judge G. Thomas Porteous of Louisiana on the first of four impeachment charges , removing him from the federal bench. The decision makes Porteous just the eighth federal judge in US history to be impeached and convicted by Congress. The Senate is...

Iranian Lawmakers Move to Oust Ahmadinejad

Rob Quinn — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:00:00 CST

It looks like Western governments aren't the only ones fed up with the antics of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran's parliament planned to impeach the leader, but was prevented from doing so by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing reports in Iranian media. Lawmakers accused the president...