A Question of Impeachment 0
Could George W. Bush ever possibly be impeached? There’s no better way to find out than to actually put him on trial. The clever folks at the Culture Project are mounting a mock trial with no script and no actors that will debate the case for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
They are doing this over 5 Mondays, each week discussing a different article (1st week: Initiation & Continuation of Illegal War, 2nd week: Torture & Extraordinary Rendition, and so forth).
Mondays will tackle five articles of impeachment directly, through depositions, modeled on actual impeachment hearings bringing in renowned lawyers from both sides of the argument, who will interview expert witnesses culled from the arenas of the military, public policy, international negotiation, and media.
Culture Project is bringing together some of the most important and knowledgeable thinkiers: Michael Ratner (President, Center for Constitutional Rights), Bruce Fein (Assoc. Deputy Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan; member, ABA Task Force on presidential signing statements), Retired Colonel Ann Wright, writer Joe Conason, attorney Martin Garbus, attorney Elizabeth Holtzman, and many others.
It’s guaranteed to be a lot less frivolous and salacious than the Clinton impeachment hearings, not to mention depressing and aggravating – but I wouldn’t miss it. If no one is willing to actually do this in real life, the least we can do is support the make believe version.
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