Impeachment of U.S. President Albert Gore, Jr._REF: U.S. Supreme Ct_Case No. 00-949

 

U.S. President George W. Bush, watched by Vice President Dick Cheney, speaks before signing a $355 billion military spending bill in the Rose Garden of the White House October 23, 2002. The bill gave the Pentagon a nearly $40 billion boost as it prepared for possible war with Iraq, the White House said.   Impeachment of U.S. President Albert Gore, Jr._REF: U.S. Supreme Ct_Case No. 00-949   Constitutional Grounds for the Impeachment and Fraud Upon the Supreme Court, et al…     Only when America’s legally elected president, Al Gore, is returned to office and subjected to required impeachment proceedings, can constitutional authority in the United States be re-established.  Toward that end, all actions of the Bush (43) presidency are to be declared “null and void,” all treaties abrogated, all executive actions declared unlawful and all actions including but not limited to the establishment of the United States as a criminal empire undone.   The subsequent election of Barak Obama as president thus has no legal standing.  Gordon Duff and Lee Wanta) — Before the Supreme Court of the United States — 1. IMPROPER FAILURE TO REPORT, 2. CONTINUOUS ABSENCE FROM HIS U.S. PRESIDENTIAL DUTIES, 3. REFUSAL TO ACCEPT THE  ELECTORAL VOTE DECISION OF THE AMERICAN     POPULACE MAJORITY, 4. CONTINUING VIOLATIONS OF PUBLIC TRUST AND EMPLOYMENT, WITHOUT DUE     PROCESS, INCLUDING ATTEMPTS TO SUBVERT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for the U.S.A. [hereafter the U.S. Constitution, or Constitution] are jointly the contract of specific performance between the U.S. citizens as the parties on one side of the agreement, and the U.S. government, its officers, employees, agents, and subcontractors as the parties on the other side of the agreement. The duty to take care is affirmative. So is the duty faithfully to execute the office. A President must carry out the obligations of his office diligently and in good faith. The elective character and political role of a President make it difficult to define faithful exercise of his powers in the abstract. A President must make policy and exercise discretion. This discretion necessarily is broad, especially in emergency situations, but the constitutional duties of a President impose limitations on its exercise. The “take care” duty emphasizes the responsibilty of a President for the overall conduct of the executive branch, which the Constitution vests in him alone. He must take care that the executive is so organized and operated that this duty is preformed. The duty of a President to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution” to the best of his ability includes the duty not to abuse his powers or transgress their limits — not to violate the rights of citizens, such as those guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, and not to act in derogation of powers vested elsewhere by the Constitution. Please Note : - Each of the thirteen American impeachments involved charges of misconduct incompatible with the official position of the officeholder. This conduct falls into three broad categories: exceeding the constitutional bounds of the powers of the office in derogation of the powers of another branch of government; behaving in a manner grossly incompatible with the proper function and purpose of the office; and employing the power of the office for an improper purpose or for personal gain.   This show explores the extensive executive powers claimed by President Bush in the name of national security. Professor Constance Rudnick will have two capable experts on the program, Kate Martin and Lyle Denniston. Martin is Director of the Center for National Security Studies, a human rights and civil liberties group in Washington, D.C.. Martin is an acknowledged expert on issues of presidential power in America, especially the growth in that power since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Denniston is a veteran U.S. Supreme Court reporter who appears regularly on Massachusetts School of Law programming. In 1973, long before George W. Bush or his father took office and claimed that the president is exempt from much of the rule of law, Arthur Schlesinger said, in his book, The Imperial Presidency that the office was already out of control and in need of definition and restraint. The same is now being said about the presidency of George W. Bush. Professors, politicians, and even some members of the press have said that the power and authority exercised by the present administration is astonishing in breadth, scope and consequence. Is the democratic, open ethos of the United States in danger? The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu. MSLAW podcasts are available from http://mslaw.libsyn.com/rss. MSLAW videos are available from Google Video.

A Question of Law: The John Roberts Supreme Court

 

 

The USS Constitution   AMERICA’S GANGSTER SUPREME COURT: ERASING CITIZENSHIP   Is the Supreme Court the most powerful governing body in America? This program will examine what we can expect from the Roberts’ court. How will it rule on major issues that will, without a doubt, come before it, such as abortion, the war on terrorism, physician assisted suicide, etc. Massachusetts School of Law Question of Law Presents "The Roberts Court: Change & Continuity,” hosted by Constance Rudnick, a Professor of Law at the Massachusetts School of Law. Rudnick is joined by Lyle Denniston a 40-year veteran of Supreme Court Reporting. The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu. MSLAW podcasts are available from http://mslaw.libsyn.com/rss. MSLAW videos are available from Google Video.     RIGHTS?   YOU GOT NO STINKING RIGHTS! By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Kim Jong-il, “Supreme Leader” of North Korea can now hire a lawyer, Rudi Guliani maybe, pay a $35 fee and buy the United States Senate.  He can then pass laws to turn our military technology over to North Korea and “borrow” our navy to use the Pacific Ocean as his private bath tub.  The Mexican drug cartels can hire a lawyer, pay a $35 fee and buy a chunk of Congress too.  They can open the border, set up drug distribution across the US unfettered by unpleasant laws and agencies. In fact, we may actually end up blackmailing countries into buying legislators just to keep safe from trade barriers or being put on “terrorist” lists.  I can foresee something akin to a stockmarket where, based on electoral prospects and committee assignments, legislators could go up and down in price like any other stock.  Imagine the embarrassment of constituents when they find their Senator is trading at bottom basement prices because of a mistress or some other indiscretion.  At least there won’t be any worry about bribes anymore.  Those will all be legal It isn’t all that hard to overthrow a key law or legal protection under our current system.  All that is required is 4 or 5 lines to be added to an appropriations bill.  They only need to  become “Delaware corporations” and, according to our oddly influenced Supreme Court, they can do anything they wish.  They wish, let me tell you, they wish.  They can afford, let me tell you, they can afford to buy all the freedom and democracy we are willing to sell and the Supreme Court put the whole pile of it on the auction block. We knew we had the worst Supreme Court in our history.  Half educated and mentally ill justices were nominated and bullied thru the Senate ratification process, yes through a United States Senate that was also one of the worst in our history, famous for spinelessness and greed.  The court began its path to taking control of the country thru overturning a presidential election, elections that are and have been jokes anyway, with a two party system long under the control of “fixers” and special interests.  Now, under the guise of giving “free speech” rights to corporations, the court has created nothing “free,” far from it.  It has given political control of the United States, control long wielded thru a soulless corporate media to any group, gang, cartel, foreign intelligence service or government that can hire a lawyer and file a form. Within two electoral cycles, every law protecting the people of the United States and even the corporations they work for can be overturned by foreign interests that will buy control of every elected body in the United States.  No law, no regulation, no rule can stand, not under the deluge of cash heading our way like a storm.  American politics had, long ago, become a commodity to be bought and sold much had our justice system.  Money always bought access, money always bought influence and money bought “representation” that placed the powerful above the law, at least some of the time.  No society is classless, no society is perfect.  Our Constitution kept a balance, one sided for sure, but was there.  This is why Americans fought and died for it, why we love and respect it and why we will miss it.  It was never perfect, it needed the Bill of Rights and, so far has been amended 27 times. We have had a long history of corporations getting into politics.  Then, however, the corporations were American.  They were known as the “Robber Barons” and American entered a period of corruption, poverty and near slavery as child labor, laws against unions, “the company store” and paid thugs ruled over American workers, workers fed milk made of chalk, bread made with wood and axle grease and half of America’s children died before the age of 6.  When the political power of corporations ended, these abuses stopped and we built the America we know today.  We have been down this road, we know it well, it is written into every history book. Recent history has proven we still have Robber Barons.  Enron ran the early Bush administration like a hand puppet.  We arrested and imprisoned Bernie Madoff, one Robber Baron.  500 went free and are back at it, bribing public officials with money given to them, “bail out money,” meant to “save” our crumbling financial system, a system we know they will “crumble” again when enough suckers start investing again. Our current system, imperfect though it is, with “gerrymandering” Congressional districts after each census and lobbyists secretly writing all our laws, is still “our” system, at least mostly ours.  That is going to end.  When America lost it’s wallet in the great crash and our national debt went to over 12 trillion dollars, the money in our corporations, the money and full control, moved overseas.  Not all corporations are evil.  Foreign ownership isn’t necessarily bad.  Most corporations  are businesses, manufacturing, trade, oil exploration and such.  However many are not. In fact, laws that allow corporations to own corporations that own corporations makes it possible for any group, any dictator, criminal gang or even a foreign government to incorporate in places such as the British Virgin Islands.  Those corporations can then incorporate in the United States.  Now that the Supreme Court has given these secret organizations virtual citizenship with all the rights and none of the responsibilities, the real people of America, the ones who live and breathe, the ones who vote, raise children and fight for their country have now become meaningless. We all know that money buys media.  The “Swiftboaters” proved that lies can swing any election.  It was Karl Rove’s “Manchurian Candidate” story that kept John McCain from being elected president in 2000.  These are nothing compared to the influence dictators and drug cartels can buy. Once they buy influence, they then change laws.  Once laws are changed, they anything they want can be made legal or illegal, depending on what they wish.  There is nothing to stop them from opening the prisons and letting anyone out or jailing anyone they wish.  The Supreme Court once protected us from that.  Now they are only a joke.  From now on, judges around the country, from every city to the Federal Appeals Court and even the Supreme Court will be chosen by the foreign owned “cash soaked” corporations that can make or break any politician from dog catcher to President of the United States. Laws can be passed to regulate the news, license reporters or tax the internet.  Books and movies can be banned, not on religious or moral grounds but because they may have insulted Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.  He is certain to use his oil money to buy a big chunk of Washington.  Maybe he and his friend Castro can get a little hammer and sickle stuck on the flag somewhere. You say this all sounds like “too much?”  During the 30s, most states had forced sterilization laws, “eugenics” they called it.  Children were sterilized if a parent was an alcoholic or held “unusual political views.”  In schools, kids recited the pledge of allegiance will doing a Nazi salute.  This and a hundred other odd but easily verifiable facts were surgically removed from the history we teach our children.  Anyone who thinks that absolute power breeds moderation and civic responsibility is as insane as, well as a Supreme Court Justice.