Letters to the Editor
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Constitutional questions
Yellow Dog:
That means that each and every member of Congress who refuses to sign on to the current bills calling for the impeachment of bush, cheney, gonzales, etc. is in violation of his/her oath of office and subject him/herself to impeachment.
Actually, impeachment is for officers of the executive branch, as well as judges, not for members of the legislature. They can be voted out, however.
Ondelette:
Ex post facto only applies to laws creating crimes and punishments that can be applied after the fact. What they are doing is protecting themselves against such punishment by clearing their records, and then any reversion of such crimes under a later Congress/administration cannot punish them for what was (technically) not a crime again.
Of course, that didn't stop Nuremburg.