Slide 1. I want to state at the outset that I am a behavioral scientist, not a lawyer.  My Ph.D. is in clinical psychology, and from a psychological perspective I am deeply disturbed by the antisocial behaviors of the Bush administration and its foreign policy, establishing the United States as an international outlaw somehow entitled to ignore and violate international laws, treaties and standards of conduct.

But psychological disturbance and antisocial behavior of our leaders are not sufficient to justify impeachment, so I rely here primarily on the Constitutional and evidentiary foundations developed by University of Illinois law professor Francis Boyle, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman who served on the House Judiciary Committee that drafted Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon, and Representative John Conyers (D, MI) who has introduced House Resolution 635 calling for a commission of inquiry into impeachable offenses.  I have also drawn upon a detailed discussion of impeachment in the Yale Law Review and an annotated Constitution that traces applications of the impeachment provisions in courtroom cases over two centuries.