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Hullabaloo — ... My petition to the California Democratic Party to pass a resolution of impeachment has as of 9am PT 684 signatures. Please sign it if you haven't already. We're going to have a lot more actions around this as the week progresses. ...

It's time to Impeach Judge Jay Bybee
Crooks and Liars — ... and the others are tabled, or combined, or referred to a separate committee. We CANNOT let this happen. The leadership of the California Democratic Party needs to hear from constituents on this issue. Sacramento Office (916) 442-5707 phone (916) 442-5715 fax Los Angeles Office (310) 407-0980 phone (310) 407-0981 fax email contact form I've also created a petition at Petition Online urging the CDP to pass this. Petition We have an opportunity to use the party apparatus to push for accountability and send it ...

Impeach Bybee
Jesus' General — Sign this petition urging the impeachment of former Bush torture policy pointman and current federal judge, Jay Bybee.

Hullabaloo — The Chief Of Staff Of Looking Forward Not Backward by dday Rahm Emanuel wants us all to just forget about the people who tortured in our name, those who authorized it, the ones who created the justifications and underpinnings for it, the entire torture regime: Never mind the moral backflips you have to make to let people off the hook for torture. Never mind the fact that the interrogators did not even follow the guidelines and meager safeguards set out in the OLC memos - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in one month. ...

De-Nazify America--Part 4: Accountability Watch--Impeach Bybee
Open Left - Front Page — ... and the others are tabled, or combined, or referred to a separate committee.  We CANNOT let this happen.  The ledership of the California Democratic Party needs to hear from constituents on this issue. Sacramento Office (916) 442-5707 phone (916) 442-5715 fax Los Angeles Office (310) 407-0980 phone (310) 407-0981 fax email contact form I've also created a petition at Petition Online urging the CDP to pass this. Petition We have an opportunity to use the party apparatus to push for accountability and ...

Rep. Jerry Nadler: Impeach Judge Bybee
Crooks and Liars — The air all around is percolating with the sounds of impeaching Jay Bybee, author of a torture memo. Rep. Jerry Nadler is calling for it now. Rep. Jerry Nadler, a senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, called Monday for the impeachment of federal judge Jay Bybee, one of the principal authors of the torture memos released last week by the Obama administration. "He ought to be impeached," Nadler said in an interview with the Huffington Post. "It was not an honest legal memo. It was an instruction manual on how to break the law." Nadler, a New York congressman, is chairman of Judiciary's ...

Will the California Democratic Party Poobahs Allow Members to Take A Stand Against Torture? Tune In and Find Out…
Firedoglake — DDay is off to Sacramento with signatures under his arm, trying to get the California Democratic Party to call for the impeachment of Torture Judge Jay Bybee who sits on the 9th Circuit Court of appeals. If you haven't signed it, here it is, and if you'd like to help chip in for his expenses, he's doing a fundraiser here (I donated -- his work trying to get Bybee impeached is a great citizen-led grassroots effort). The Resolution Committee meets at 3pm today, but it's probably going to come down to what Bob Mulholland and co-chairs Inola Henry and John Hanna want to do. If the California Democratic Party ...

Hullabaloo — VICTORY: Resolution of Impeachment Inquiry Into Jay Bybee Will Pass CA Dem Party Today by dday Several weeks of hard work have paid off, and the California Democratic Party is poised to provide a major tool in the fight for justice and accountability for the Bush torture regime. The Resolutions Committee included on their consent calendar the resolution to begin a Congressional inquiry into Judge Jay Bybee and other lawyers who wrote opinions justifying and providing the fig leaf of a rationale for torture, with all punishments allowable under the law, including impeachment. Without the release of the ...