(Editor’s Note: Today, July 19, 2006, marks the first National Impeachment Day sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Rights to raise awareness about impeachment, offer citizens a strategy to impeachment and organize to stop the assault on the American people and her constitutions.)

By Dave Lindorff

Happy Impeachment Day!

The Center for Constitutional Rights, which has been playing a leading role in battling the Bush administration’s attacks on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and international law, has declared today to be Impeachment Day, with teach-ins scheduled around the country.

Seems like a great occasion to offer up 10 reasons for impeaching the president, as presented in Barbara Olshansky’s and my new book The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office.

The case for impeachment just grew much stronger, with the US Supreme Court’s powerful decision in Hamdan v Rumsfeld. In that decision, the justices didn’t simply say that the President was wrong and in violation of U.S. and the international law in arbitrarily claiming that the Guantanamo detainees were not subject to the Geneva Convention on Treatment of Prisoners of War. The five-justice majority, which included conservative Anthony Kennedy, declared the President’s bogus claim to have “special powers” as commander in chief in “time of war” to be just that–bogus.

What has been missed in almost all the mainstream media coverage of this important ruling is that this slap-down of Bush’s justification for his Guantanamo decision also undermines his justification for many other of his constitutional violations.

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