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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 07:28 AM
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166. and Truman's seizure of the steel mills during the Korean War was held unconsitutional
Should Truman have been impeached? What about FDR and the internment of Japanese Americans. It was held constitutional by the SCOTUS. Does that make it right? Does it mean that an attempt to impeach him would have been wrong?
Yes, various actions taken by chimpy and his gang have been held to be illegal and/or unconsitutional. There is nothing new about that. Every administration takes actions that are challenged in court and struck down.

Would an impeachment inquiry regarding chimpy and gang have been justified? Sure.
But whether or not such an effort was made is up to the complete and unfettered discretion of Congress, just as it was when FDR was president and just as it was when Truman was president. There is no "duty" to impeach or even to consider impeachment (let alone to convict).
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