Hodding Carter III to Moderate Impeachment Debate between Bruce Fein and Michael Tomasky

December 11, 2007
7pm
Chapel Hill Town Hall, NC

In the tradition of the Lincoln/Douglas Debates, Coalition for the Constitution (www.CoalitionForTheConstitution.com) will host a Debate on Impeachment between Republican Bruce Fein (pro-impeachment) and Democrat Michael Tomasky (anti-impeachment). The Debate will be held on December 11, 2007, at 7pm, at the Chapel Hill Town Hall and will be moderated by UNC Professor of Leadership and Public Policy, W. Hodding Carter III, and hosted by Orange County Commission Chairman Moses Carey.

Impeachment is mentioned six times in the United States Constitution, including most clearly in Article II, section 3, which reads:

“The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

Recently, privileged resolution HR 333, Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney, was introduced on the floor of the House.

To help the public better understand the pros and cons of impeachment, the organizers have lined up two well-known political pundits to debate and answer those questions. Admission is free and all citizens are encouraged to attend.

Bruce Fein is a lawyer, specializing in constitutional and international law, who served as an associate deputy attorney general under Ronald Reagan. He has recently been a strong advocate for the impeachment of current U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney and President George W Bush. Fein graduated from Harvard Law School in 1972. In March 2007, he founded the American Freedom Agenda with Bob Barr, David Keene and Richard Viguerie. Fein is counsel to Ron Paul's campaign for the 2008 Presidential nomination. One of his most scathing indictments of Dick Cheney appeared in his article for Slate.com entitled, “Impeach Cheney, The Vice President has run utterly amok and must be stopped.” http://www.slate.com/id/2169292/

Michael Tomasky, is a progressive journalist who has recently written an article about impeachment, entitled, “The Dumbest Move the Dems Could Make” which has been cited by the Democratic Leadership, and 4th District North Carolina Congressman, David Price, as the reasoning behind their refusal to support impeachment. Tomasky has served as the executive editor of The American Prospect and is the author of Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America (1996), a study of the intellectual collapse of the American left. Here is a link to his article “The Dumbest Move the Dems Could Make”: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/02/AR2007080201767.html

Hodding Carter III served as Assistant Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter. For additional information, please visit: http://www.knightcommission.org/about/kciamember/hodding_carter_iii/

Fein v. Tomasky Debate
7 pm, December 11, 2007
Chapel Hill Town Hall