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Resources and Links: Our ever expanding collection of links to stories and other information about the impeachment of State and Federal Officials in the United States. In the News: Move to impeach federal judge is a rarity "A federal appellate court's impeachment recommendation leveled against U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous last week ranks as such a rare occurrence that none of the 7,400 complaints filed against members of the nation's judiciary in the past decade met the same fate, according to the most recent statistics." - more House Panel Moves Toward Impeaching Federal Judge The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to open the first impeachment probe of a sitting judge in almost two decades. With little discussion, the Democratic-led panel voted unanimously to launch an investigation against U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous, a Louisiana jurist, who is charged with presiding over a trial in which the lawyers involved had given him money. He's also accused of filing for bankruptcy under a false name. - more
Burnam files to impeach state judge Sharon Keller Fort Worth State Rep. Lon Burnam filed a resolution this afternoon calling for the impeachment of Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller. - more Current Petitions: But federal judge Jay Bybee worked long and hard to undermine the Bill of Rights - and to make sure that President George W. Bush could do the same. On March 2, the Justice Department released a series of legal memos, some authored by Jay Bybee, that gave the Bush Administration legal cover to wiretap Americans without court approval, to send prisoners overseas where they were likely to be tortured, to use U.S. military forces for domestic purposes, and a number of other actions that previously would have been considered unconstitutional. - more Impeach Judge George C. Greer of Florida's Sixth Judicial Circuit An online petition hosted at petitiononline.com seeking the impeachment of Judge George C. Greer. - more Additional Information: A Short History of Impeachment A brief outline on the History of Impeachment. - more |
