The Reason We Can Impeach Govenor Perry

The Reason We Can Impeach Govenor Perry

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As in the U.S. Constitution, the only legal method of removing a governor from office is through the process of impeachment and conviction. Impeachment is the process of accusing an official of misconduct in office and is similar to the process of indictment by a grand jury. Impeachment is only a formal accusation – it is not a determination of guilt or innocence. This judgment requires a trial.

Efforts to remove a governor begin in the Texas House of Representatives, which must cast a majority vote in favor of impeachment. Such a vote amounts to bringing formal charges against a governor. The Texas Constitution, however, does not provide any specific grounds for impeachment, leaving such judgments in the hands of the Legislature. Again, this is similar to the national constitution; impeachment is based on the commission of "high crimes and misdemeanors," but after more than two hundred years there is still no consensus what this phrase means in practice.

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You can read the rest of this article on Impeachment in the Texas Constitution at: http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/html/exec/0303.html

The bolding and highlighting in the above article was done by me. Govenor Perry has betrayed the people who put him into office. He is not a conservative and he is NOT doing the job we elected him to do!

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