On April 8, independent LaRouche candidate for U.S. President Diane Sare brought a needed dose of reality to a symposium on “impeachment and the meaning of ‘bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.’” The Washington, D.C. symposium, convened by Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein, and boosted by former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, has now been viewed by well over 100,000 people.
The most compelling arguments for impeachment were brought forward by speakers on the first panel, which included Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, Doug Bandow, and CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling. Each made the point of the criminality of proposing ending a civilization. One of the speakers on this panel said that virtually every Truth Social post that Trump has written in the last month is grounds for impeachment
That panel also usefully developed the reasoning of the framers of the Constitution in having decisions on whether to wage war rest upon the Congress or the Executive. The point was made that both Alexander Hamilton and James Madison explicitly stated that the pressures to wage war due to envy, personal affront, etc., made it dangerous to place such authority in the hands of the executive.
The arguments of the speakers ranged widely from matters of principle to matters of partisan bickering, and most did not have the tone of the urgency that the situation demands. In one of her interventions, Sare addressed the broader picture: what sort of culture has allowed the U.S. to get to this point, and how can we address the current situation in a way that can bring the country together?
