For New Jersey's 8th Congressional District: The key documents in the form of .pdf files constitute the Foundation of Our NORTH JERSEY IMPEACH GROUP and are available at our site, click ImpeachThem.com

Everyone who joins us should read these documents.

While our primary focus is the passage in our New Jersey State Legislature A Resolution to Impeach Bush and Cheney, we answer Democrats.com's call to organize within the NJ 8th Congressional District, represented by Bill Pascrell of Paterson. We invite you to join our effort to mount a campaign to persuade Rep. Pascrell to support impeachment directly in the U.S. House of Representatives. Please contact us to learn how you can help. Click to reach the organizer

To learn more Click DOCUMENTS
The next step is to download the documents to your computer and print them out to pass on to family, friends and acquaintances. Knowledge is on our side; the more we spread it around, the sooner we will disarm the threats to America and our world, and we can finally look forward with hope to a bright future for all.

• IMPEACH GROUP STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
--- Explains who we are, what we want, and how we will impeach Bush-Cheney, restore justice
--- and reclaim democracy.

• VOTERS BILL OF RIGHTS
--- The Voters' Bill of Rights is of absolute equal importance to our campaign for the impeachment of the Bush gang. It's crucial to achieve impeachment, indictment, prosecution, conviction and imprisonment of the people who betrayed our country and the world. But we recognize the impeachment means nothing unless we move to combine justice with reclaiming our stolen democracy. The Voters' Bill of Rights must be passed in Congress to assure the protection of Democracy from the thieves of theocratic oligarchy who destroy Democracy today, and protection from any in the future whose goals are the subversion and murder of Democracy.

• NEW JERSEY IMPEACH TIME
--- Presents our argument why Bush, Cheney and their gang need to be impeached.

• IMPEACH PETITION USA
--- Our Petition to Impeach. It's important to collect hard copy petitions.
--- It's important to show that many people want the bad guys impeached.

• RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH
--- This is the language we propose that our legislature pass.
--- This language can be used in other states. Check this with progressive lawyers.
--- And see The Impeach Resolutions of California, Illinois, Minnesota & Vermont

• New Jersey Legislature Leadership 2006-07
--- These are the people and offices we need to persuade to stand up for democracy.
--- We list Republicans here too. We phone, email, write to them again and again.

• A Sample Letter to a Legislator
--- You can use this to write our NJ lawmakers to gain support for our Resolution.
--- It works, it gets results!

• History of State Initiated Impeachment
Impeachment is normally initiated by a Member of the US House of Representatives. But there is another way that impeachment can be started. This mechanism was first promoted by blogs from arbortender and Kagro X.

According to the Jefferson Manual, a State Legislature can initiate impeachment through their Representative in the House. Section LIII on Impeachment, section 603 states:

"In the House there are various methods of setting an impeachment in motion: ... by charges transmitted from the legislature of a State (III, 2469) ..."

The (III, 2469) refers to the Hinds Precedents, section 2469. It tells of how in 1903 the Florida legislature passed a bill to impeach a corrupt US District Judge named Charles Swayne. With the power of a joint resolution from his home state behind him, Mr. William B. Lamar, of Florida, claiming the floor for a question of privilege, said:

"Mr. Speaker, I believe that the impeachment of a civil officer by this House is a question of privilege. I have made a joint resolution adopted by the legislature of the State of Florida a part of the resolution which I desire to submit to this House for its adoption. In pursuance of this joint resolution of the legislature of the State which I have the honor in part to represent, I impeach Charles Swayne, judge of the northern district of the State of Florida, of high crimes and misdemeanors;"

The house voted to bypass the Judiciary Committee and ordered the investigation of Judge Swayne.

A House Representative can always initiate impeachment by introducing a resolution as a question of privilege. But after consultation with senior staff in the US House of Representatives, we have determined that a state can initiate impeachment without requiring that a Member introduce the resolution. This does not mean that a state can give a mandate to Congress to start impeachment. But it gives the states a mechanism by which impeachment may be initiated if acted upon by Congress.

Impeachment charges from a state can be sent to the Clerk of the House of Representatives. The charges must be marked with the word “Petition” at the top, and bear the authorizing signature of the Secretary of State from that state. The Clerk must then note in the Congressional Journal that the charges were received. The charges will then be referred to the House Judiciary Committee for consideration.

The Judiciary Committee may then investigate the charges, draft Articles of Impeachment and submit them to the floor of the house for a vote. It is also possible that the Committee may ignore the charges. That will depend on the ever shifting political situation and cannot be predicted. But the fact that success is not guaranteed does not relieve the state legislature of their obligation to do whatever they possibly can to defend the United States Constitution according to their oath of office.

The Jefferson Manual LIII, Section 604 also states:

"A direct proposition to impeach is a question of high privilege in the House and at once supersedes business otherwise in order under the rules governing the order of business."

Note that in order to have Privelege, the proposition to impeach must be introduced by a Member, or by a House Committee. Read more about "privilege" and how it relates to impeachment.
Resources

• "Messages, Petitions, Communications, and Memorials to Congress" by Paul Rundquist, CRS Report to Congress, 8/5/03
--- This History of State Initiated Impeachment is provided by Phil Burk at Impeach Bush TV. Our sincere thanks to him for his huge contribution to the movement to restore justice and reclaim democracy in the USA.

Finally, if you want to communicate by hard copy through the U.S. mail, you can write to:
North Jersey Impeach Group
117 Chestnut Drive
Wayne NJ 07470-5639
People who want to contribute to our work can send checks to this address, made out to North Jersey Impeach Group. Thank you.

WELCOME TO THE MAJORITY WHO WANT DEMOCRACY, JUSTICE, DECENCY AND DIGNITY FOR ALL!