Impeachment Resolution Against President George W. Bush
by
Francis A. Boyle Professor of Law
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.
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
"a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations" 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 Constitution's 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 "Cointelpro" 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 soldiers' 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.)