Former top federal prosecutor and best-selling author Andrew McCarthy has a new book coming out in June that makes the political case for impeaching President Obama.
In "Faithless Execution," McCarthy turns away from recent books focusing on the Arab world, Islamic supremacism and its relation with the political left, and according to the book's media kit, makes the "first serious effort to build a principled political indictment of the nation’s 45th president...the mainstream case for the “I-word”— Impeachment."
The former prosecutor writes under the premise that impeachment is primarily a "political remedy," and Congress will not move unless the American people demand it.
McCarthy therefore seeks to take the "first step in building a real popular consensus for impeachment...[by demonstrating] that the President's rampant lawlessness represents a systemic threat to our constitutional order--a threat so egregious it requires action."
In the book, McCarthy asserts that President Obama has subverted the Constitution under the following seven articles of impeachment, again per the book's media kit:
REFUSAL TO EXECUTE LAWS FAITHFULLYWillful disregard for congressionally enacted, constitutionally valid law, while dictating policy by executive fiat. Including multiple unilaterally decreed amendments to the Affordable Care Act in direct contravention of the law passed by Congress.
USURPING CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
Unilaterally instigating an undeclared, unauthorized, and unprovoked war in Libya, resulting in thousands of deaths, the killing of a head of state, and the empowerment of anti-America jihadists.
DERELICTION OF DUTY AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF
The grossly inadequate security for government personnel in Benghazi, leading to the murder of four American citizens, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
FRAUD ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Deliberately misled the American people in the enactment and implementation of Obamacare, and on scandals from Fast & Furious and the IRS harassment of conservative groups to the Benghazi massacre.
FAILURE TO EXECUTE LAWS FAITHFULLY: IMMIGRATION
Granting amnesty through executive edict and refusing to enforce existing immigration laws.
FAILURE TO EXECUTE LAWS FAITHFULLY: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The systematic politicization of a Department of Justice that has covered up the Fast & Furious scandal, denied Americans equal protection of the laws, encouraged violations of law, and stonewalled Congress.
UNDERMINING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
The selective targeting of political opponents for harassment and abuse by the Internal Revenue Service, while restricting freedom of speech and conscience.
McCarthy, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is best known for leading the prosecution against the so-called "blind sheikh," Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, along with 11 others in the 1995 terrorism case stemming from the first World Trade Center bombing and additional planned attacks.
