The charges of impeachment against Barack Obama

[JD Barleycorn]

I was recently challenged about the impeachable offenses of Barack Obama and I was able to rattle off five charges. I decided to do a little investigation of earlier impeachments, the charges, and their relevance to the impeachment of Obama. Below are the charges that would have been brought against Richard Nixon and the charges there were brought against Andrew Johnson in 1868. Charges against Bill Clinton were very personal in nature (suborning perjury and lying under oath) to be used unless Obama is brought before a tribunal under oath.

Using this criteria, Obama can be impeached for six different offenses.
Article 1
RESOLVED, That Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours, and that the following articles of impeachment to be exhibited to the Senate:
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NAME OF ITSELF AND OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST RICHARD M. NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF ITS IMPEACHMENT AGAINST HIM FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS.
ARTICLE 1
In his conduct 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 violation of his consitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice, in that:
On June 17, 1972, and prior thereto, agents of the Committee for the Re-election of the President committed unlawful entry of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of securing political intelligence. Subsequent thereto, Richard M. Nixon, using the powers of his high office, engaged personally and through his close subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation of such illegal entry; to cover up, conceal and protect those responsible; and to conceal the existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities.
The means used to implement this course of conduct or plan included one or more of the following:
1. making false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States; You can keep your doctor if you like him, you can keep your healthcare plan if you like it, there is not a smidgen of corruption in the IRS, illegal aliens will not receive Obamacare, Obamacare will not be used to provide abortions,
2. withholding relevant and material evidence or information from lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States; stonewalling the investigations (whether you agree with them or not) into Benghazi, the IRS, and Fast and Furious.
3. approving, condoning, acquiescing in, and counselling witnesses with respect to the giving of false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States and false or misleading testimony in duly instituted judicial and congressional proceedings; Eric Holder, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, and Lois Lerner all can be demonstrated to lie under oath in front of Congress.
4. interfering or endeavouring to interfere with the conduct of investigations by the Department of Justice of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and Congressional Committees; the afore mentioned liars and investigations
5. approving, condoning, and acquiescing in, the surreptitious payment of substantial sums of money for the purpose of obtaining the silence or influencing the testimony of witnesses, potential witnesses or individuals who participated in such unlawful entry and other illegal activities;
6. endeavouring to misuse the Central Intelligence Agency, an agency of the United States;
7. disseminating information received from officers of the Department of Justice of the United States to subjects of investigations conducted by lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States, for the purpose of aiding and assisting such subjects in their attempts to avoid criminal liability; it has been demonstrated that the Justice Department communicated inappropriately with the IRS during the ongoing investigation into the IRS corruption scandal.
8. making or causing to be made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States into believing that a thorough and complete investigation had been conducted with respect to allegations of misconduct on the part of personnel of the executive branch of the United States and personnel of the Committee for the Re-election of the President, and that there was no involvement of such personnel in such misconduct:
or
9. endeavouring to cause prospective defendants, and individuals duly tried and convicted, to expect favoured treatment and consideration in return for their silence or false testimony, or rewarding individuals for their silence or false testimony.
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.

ARTICLE III.

That said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, on the 21st day of February,in the year of our Lord 1868, at Washington in the District of Columbia, did commit, and was guilty of a high misdemeanor in office, in this, that, without authority of law, while the Senate of the United States was then and there in session, he didappoint one Lorenzo Thomas to be Secretary for the Department of War, ad interim, without the advice and consent of the Senate, and with intent to violate the Constitution of the United States, no vacancy having happened in said office of Secretary for the Department of War during the recess of the Senate, and no vacancy existing in said office at the time, and which said appointment so made by Andrew Johnson, of said Lorenzo Thomas is in substance as follows, that is to say: Obama did make unlawful appointments to office in the NLRB while Congress was still in session.

[Guest040616]

Bring it on and let the chips fall where they may!

Idiot!

[i'va biggen]

Well that would keep the new congress from doing anything.

[SpeedRacerXXX]

It's not going to happen so why are you wasting so much time contemplating the possibility of it happening?

[Guest040616]

Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX

It's not going to happen so why are you wasting so much time contemplating the possibility of it happening?

when JDIdiot is not dreaming about impeaching President Obama he contemplates the possibility of a a hijacked plane secretly parked on a deserted island and camouflaged by tens of thousands of shrubs.

JDIdiot is a modern day Jerry Fletcher!

[WTF]

Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX

It's not going to happen so why are you wasting so much time contemplating the possibility of it happening?

JD lives in an alternate universe. One where dreaming about getting butt fucked on a Naval ship by Marines going off to War is somehow patriotic.

[Yssup Rider]

Will you be prosecuting the case professor? Will the "university" give you the afternoon off so you can hitch a ride up to Warshingtun and bring the boy down?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AAAAA

oh yeah ... And so you don't feel ignored:

SNICK!

[JD Barleycorn]

This may surprise you but I am into history and politics. Like I said, I was challenged by a student wanting to know what Obama could be charged with. That has come up here as well. I did tell him to look up past impeachments, the charges, and get back to me. Since this is being done by email I don't expect much...but who knows. Anyway for you, this is a historical prospective of impeachment and the charges there were made. This in no way suggests that the current Congress wil impeach much less impede the current president but this is what has been done. You can't argue with history (though some of you will try) and you can try to make a case that he didn't do the things that I pointed out (that would be up to the Senate to wrangle over) but these are the charges. So don't argue that he will be impeached (I didn't say that) but try to make the case that he is innocent of the charges.

I would add two more charges:

1. He lied or caused to be issued a public falsehood for the purpose of advancing his agenda. [Obamacare]
2. He provided aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. [the Bergdahl trade]

[Yssup Rider]

What, no cut and paste from the Bible?

Save it for the boys in the mess hall, professor. You're a fucking loony!

[Guest040616]

Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

I was challenged by a student wanting to know what Obama could be charged with.

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

What, no cut and paste from the Bible?

Save it for the boys in the mess hall, professor. You're a fucking loony!

Students, I would like to introduce you to your instructor for the next semester, Professor JDIdiot.

Suddenly, a loud groan engulfs the room!

[rioseco]

I hate Obama, Holder, Lerner, and both Clintons.
But if the truth be known, most all on ther hill are liars.
Thats how they get there and make a career of posturing, lying, and sellinging out.

[Yssup Rider]

The truth will NEVER be known if you're the one "telling" it, SLOBBRIN LITE.

What the fuck does this thread have to do with the Clintons, Holder or Lerner?

Ignorant hillbilly fuck.

[boardman]

Obama craftily insulated himself from impeachment by choosing an idiot for a running mate. He probably supported Boehner for speaker for the same reason.

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by boardman

Obama craftily insulated himself ..... He probably supported Boehner for speaker for the same reason.

Actually, it was Nancy. The Senate has been his buffer on the Hill, and the strict constructionists on the Court as his safety net.

[gnadfly]

Supposedly it was Caroline Kennedy would headed up the selection committee for Biden.