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Impeach Jay Bybee

Think Progress has started a campaign to urge Congress to impeach Jay Bybee. Bybee is the author of the torture memo that I wrote about last week, and has since become a judge on the Ninth District Court of Appeals.

As far as I’m concerned, Attorney General Eric Holder should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate our use of torture, but there’s not much you or I can do about that. On the other hand, impeachment is a political proceeding, and we can all encourage our representatives to start impeachment proceedings. Impeaching Bybee would also start the ball rolling on a wider discussion of how torture was applied by the US government.


2 Comments

Sounds good! While we are at it, can we also start impeachment proceedings on everyone that voted for the AIG Bonus Tax? Last I heard bills of attainder were unconstitutional.

Posted by Jeff on 21 April 2009 @ 1pm

I was certainly glad that tax didn’t pass.

Posted by Rafe on 21 April 2009 @ 2pm

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