New Mexico legislature may impeach public regulation commissioner

House Speaker Ben Luján sent a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders Tuesday outlining plans to form a subcommittee during the special session to investigate allegations against PRC Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., which would ultimately decide whether to recommend impeachment for the full House.

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Burgess backs off support for Obama impeachment, frustrating tea party backers

After suggesting to a crowd of Tea Party constituents that he was interested in trying to impeach President Barack Obama, U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, backed off from his statement Tuesday.

Impeach Obama!

Markos Moulitsas has started to leak the results of a comprehensive Research 2000 poll of Republicans, asking for their take on a series of hot-button issues. Thirty-nine percent of Republicans, for example, want Obama to be impeached. Thirty-one percent want a ban on contraception.

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Poll: 35 Percent of Republicans Want to Impeach Obama

Public Policy Polling has another mind-bending partisan number from its national survey. Right now, 20 percent of Americans “support the impeachment of President Obama for his actions so far.” That number includes 35 percent of Republicans, to only 15 percent of independents and 10 percent of Democrats.

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Censure: Good Enough for Sanford, Not Good Enough for Clinton

By a 22-9 vote, the South Carolina Republican executive committee has voted to censure Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.). Only 10 members of the committee demanded his resignation. It’s reminiscent of what happened after the 1998 elections, when Republicans lost seats in the House of Representatives and temporarily considered More…

Yoo Still Defends Torture Tactics, as Threat of Prosecution Looms

Former Bush administration Office of Legal counsel lawyer John Yoo yesterday told a packed auditorium at the campus of Chapman University School of Law in Orange County, Calif. — where he is a visiting professor (Yoo is on leave from what he called “The People’s Republic of Berkeley”) — that More…

IL Senate Votes Unanimously to Remove Blagojevich from Office

It’s official: Rod Blagojevich is governor of Illinois no more.

The Illinois state senators just went down the line in a roll-call vote, and one after another, they all said “yes” to the motion to give Blagojevich the boot. Inevitability became reality as the 40-vote threshold for removal was passed More…

Blagojevich Apparently Unaware He’s Been Accused of Corruption (Updated With Video)

Following his impeachment this morning, Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) gave a press conference that addressed everything under the sun — except the charges of corruption and abuse of power for which he was impeached. It was an utterly bizarre spectacle that left CNN’s Rick Sanchez asking, “What the hell was More…

Illinois House Votes to Impeach Blagojevich

MSNBC reports that the Illinois House of Representatives has just voted to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) for alleged corruption and abuse of power. Blagojevich was arrested last month for, according to federal investigators, scheming to “sell” an appointment to President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat. The Illinois House vote More…

Let the Blago Showdown Begin

So does Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich have the right to appoint Roland Burris as the next senator from Illinois or doesn’t he?

A helpful analysis from CNN.com notes the following:

Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to be “judge of the elections, returns and

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