Courts and Judicial Briefs: Impeachment of U.S. President Albert Gore, Jr._REF: U.S. Supreme Ct

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)

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Before the Supreme Court of the United States

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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?

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