# Why is AG Gonzales NOT being impeached?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 17, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-ag-gonzales-not-being-impeached/404513 "2007-05-17T21:09:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-ag-gonzales-not-being-impeached/404513/41 "2007-05-27T20:14:25Z")

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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]  
What law has been broken?

Drafting the Justice Department into the Administration’s service for partisan political purposes **should** be illegal, but AFAIK it is not.  
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That doesn’t matter. Impeachment was deliberately designed to be a political process separate from the criminal process. Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224 (1993). An impeachment and conviction is absolutely unreviewable by any court. All it takes it the political will to do so.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-ag-gonzales-not-being-impeached/404513/42 "2007-06-08T21:16:20Z")

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From Salon:

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> A question to ponder as the weekend begins: At least 10 Republican senators have hinted, intimated or outright declared that Alberto Gonzales ought to resign. How many of them will put their money where their mouths are when the Senate moves toward a no-confidence vote on the attorney general Monday? “If all senators who have actually lost confidence in Attorney General Gonzales voted their conscience,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said today, “this vote would be unanimous.”

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-ag-gonzales-not-being-impeached/404513/43 "2007-06-12T07:23:37Z")

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In answer to the OP: [Because the Senate can’t even muster enough votes to break a filibuster on a symbolic vote of no confidence.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061101623.html?hpid=topnews) Impeachment? It is to laugh.

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