Arizona senator floats Obama impeachment
Think Progress
Igor VolskyTuesday
June 26, 2012
http://times247.com/articles/arizona-senator-floats-idea-of-impeaching-obama
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) floated the possibility of impeaching President Obama over the administration’s recent decisions on immigration, during an appearance on Bill Bennett’s radio show on Tuesday.
Responding to a question about the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to pull back “on a program known as 287(g) — which allows the feds to deputize local officials to make immigration-based arrests” — following the Supreme Court’s ruling invalidating substantial sections of Arizona’s SB 1070, Kyl said the president must be held accountable:
"Now if it’s bad enough and if shenanigans involved in it, then of course impeachment is always a possibility."
Arizona senator floats Obama impeachment NewsThink Progress by: Igor VolskyTuesday, June 26, 2012
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., questions Attorney General Eric Holder during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington June 12. Photo Credit:AP/J. Scott Applewhite Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) floated the possibility of impeaching President Obama over the administration’s recent decisions on immigration, during an appearance on Bill Bennett’s radio show on Tuesday.
Responding to a question about the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to pull back “on a program known as 287(g) — which allows the feds to deputize local officials to make immigration-based arrests” — following the Supreme Court’s ruling invalidating substantial sections of Arizona’s SB 1070, Kyl said the president must be held accountable:
"Now if it’s bad enough and if shenanigans involved in it, then of course impeachment is always a possibility."
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