Articles of Impeachment ~ July 27, 1974

Article 2

Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, 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 disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposed of these agencies.

This conduct has included one or more of the following:

1. He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.

 

Et cetera:

In all of this, Richard M. Nixon 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 Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

 

 

Just sayin' . . . It's enough already with this "Yes We Can" crap.

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Some savant -- I can't remember who -- opined the other day that the Obama administration itself had leaked the IRS story -- in order to divert public attention away from Benghazi. If's there's any truth to the story -- which I doubt -- that would be the equivalent of releasing a vial of plague germs without wearing a hazmat suit. If anything, the IRS story is reinforcing the central message of the Benghazi story: the Obama administration is not to be trusted. And that message was doubly reinforced this morning when, at his press conference, Obama called Benghazi a "sideshow." Unfortunate choice of words: sideshows, after all, are the habitat of freaks, weirdos, and oddities. So, Obama implied that everyone and anyone who doubts his veractity on Benghazi is a freak, a weirdo, and an oddity. Is this guy TRYING to commit political suicide?