Impeach for Peace — 25 February 2008 — by Mikael Rudolph— UPDATE! Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) is 5th House Judiciary Committee member to sign Wexler’s letter calling to impeach Cheney! — A spokesperson in Minnesota Representative and House Judiciary Committee member Keith Ellison’s office confirmed today that friday Representative Ellison added his name to Florida Representative Robert Wexler’s letter calling for the HJC to immediately commence impeachment hearings investigating Vice President Richard B. Cheney for possible impeachable offenses.

Ellison spearheaded an effort to initiate impeachment proceedings while he was a state legislator in Minnesota and was an early cosigner onto H. Res. 333 — now 799 authored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and has continued to consistently support efforts to impeach the Vice President and President George W. Bush.

A list on Wexler’s campaign website: just added Ellison’s name and lists three other members of the HJC as signatories, Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) along with Rep. Wexler. Ellison’s signing means that 5 of the 22 Democrats on the committee have cosigned Wexler’s letter. — CLICK READ MORE to read the rest! —

Three other HJC members signed onto H. Res. 333: Hency 'Hank' Johnson (D-GA), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) last year and one more, Anthony Weiner (D-NY), has publicly stated that he will sign Wexler’s letter, bringing a total of 9 HJC members publicly favoring impeachment and thirteen not yet in support.

HJC Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and powerful member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) were impeachment advocates but have changed positions in the new congress, seemingly heeding the call of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to keep impeachment "off the table."

Here is the list from Wexler's site with Ellison’s name added:

(*= member of the Judiciary Committee)

Abercrombie, Neil, HI, 1st
Baldwin, Tammy, WI, 2nd *
Capuano, Michael E., MA, 8th
Clarke, Yvette D., NY, 11th
Clay, Wm. Lacy, MO, 1st
Cohen, Steve, TN, 9th *
DeFazio, Peter, OR, 4th
Ellison, Keith, MN, 5th *
Farr, Sam, CA, 17th
Grijalva, Raúl M., AZ, 7th
Gutierrez, Luis V., IL, 4th *
Kucinich, Dennis J., OH, 10th
Lee, Barbara, CA, 9th
Moore, Gwen, WI, 4th
Moran, James P., VA, 8th
Thompson, Mike, CA, 1st
Towns, Edolphus, NY, 10th
Woolsey, Lynn, CA, 6th
Wexler, Robert, FL, 19th *
Wynn, Albert Russell, MD, 4th