Mr_X
Well-Known Member
This was one of the articles congress mentioned yesterdayI'm interested in any evidence that impeaching a person who is no longer President, is a constitutional thing.
Does that mean Obama can be impeached for illegally allowing the NSA to collect phone records etc. ?
George Bush (the idiot) can be impeached for invading Iraq on false pretenses ?
FDR could be impeached for incarcerating U.S. citizens without due process ?
Abe Lincoln could be impeached for jailing the press critical of his ideas ?
Also, could any other Presidents be impeached for issuing "executive orders" ? (Not sure they are a constitutional allowed thing)
Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3
"No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."