Legal Experts to Senate Committee: Bush "Signing Statements" Unconstitutional, Impeachable

Hell, yes, its is an impeachable offense to try to be king.

Duh...

News Alert: Legal Experts to Senate Committee: Bush "Signing Statements" Unconstitutional, Impeachable:

"Bruce Fein, attorney and renowned legal scholar, told the committee that Bush has essentially given himself a line item veto power by declaring portions of new laws unconstitutional and offering his own revisions.

'These statements, which have multiplied logarithmically under President George W. Bush, flout the Constitution's checks and balances and separation of powers. They usurp legislative prerogatives and evade accountability,' Fein said.

'The President does not enjoy a constitutional option of unilaterally pronouncing a provision he has signed into law as unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it on that count.'
Citing Bush's behavior as 'alarming,' Fein suggested that the President could be impeached for 'political crime(s) against the Constitution.'

Also at the hearing, Harvard Law Professor Charles J. Ogletree added, 'this excessive exercise of executive power, coupled with the failure to use the authorized veto power, creates serious issues of constitutional magnitude.' Bush's abuse of signing statements is 'not only bad public policy, but also creates a unilateral and unchecked exercise of authority in one branch of government without the interaction and consideration of the others.'"