September 17, 2008

Dear Congressman Nadler,

We are sure this will come as no surprise, but your inexplicable refusal to uphold your oath of office or wield the power entrusted to you as a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the chair of the its Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties subcommittee to bring about impeachment hearings has gravely disappointed thousands of your constituents.

You did not challenge Nancy Pelosi when she took impeachment off the table. You did not call upon John Conyers to initiate hearings, and you did not stand with your courageous colleagues who put principle before Party by calling for impeachment hearings.

The thousands of names accompanying this letter are the names of those who signed the online petition at www.AskNadler2Impeach.org and who have been working tirelessly to convince you to call for impeachment hearings. Over the past year and a half, we have called your office, written letters to you, met with you and your staff, created the online petition at www.AskNadler2Impeach.org, organized a Town Hall meeting with constitutional scholars to address the issue of impeachment, and produced a DVD of that town hall meeting which we hand delivered to each member of the House Judiciary Committee. So far all of our efforts to convince you of the need for impeachment hearings have fallen on deaf ears.

Before the 110th Congress adjourns, you still have an opportunity to redeem yourself in the eyes of history by demanding that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney be held accountable for the impeachable offenses they have committed.

The hour is getting late, Representative Nadler. Call for impeachment hearings as if our constitutional rights depended upon it.

Yours truly,

For www.AskNadler2Impeach.Org
 
(Original letter lists the names of 2,355 signers of the online petition at www.asknadler2impeach.org )