What are the grounds for impeachment for Bush and Cheney?
BUSH: 1. Refusal to comply with subpoenas (not disputable, and passed by the Judiciary Committee against Nixon) 2. Routine violation of numerous laws, preceded by announcement of intention to do so in signing statements (White House website and GAO study) 3. Violating U.S. law and the Constitution through widespread wiretapping of the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant. (Confessed to.) 4. Commuting the sentence of I Lewis Scooter Libby. (Both Madison and Mason argued at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia that impeachment would protect against a president pardoning someone for a crime that he himself was involved in). 5. Violating the United Nations Charter by launching an illegal “War of Aggression” against Iraq without cause, using fraud to sell the war to Congress and the public, and misusing government funds to begin bombing without Congressional authorization. 6. Violating U.S. and international law by authorizing the torture of thousands of captives,
