Al Gore Speech to Address Constitutional Crisis

Update: Really wanted to add a picture to this post, but wasn't finding a recent one that I liked. So I'm going to use an old one instead--of Howard Dean endorsing Al Gore back in 2000.



Here's the Yahoo News article about the speech Al Gore is scheduled to give on Monday. (The Nation is the original source.)

Aides who are familiar with the preparations for the address say that Gore will frame his remarks in Constitutional language. The Democrat who beat Bush by more than 500,000 votes in the 2000 presidential election has agreed to deliver his remarks in a symbolically powerful location: the historic Constitution Hall of the Daughters of the American Revolution. But this will not be the sort of cautious, bureacratic speech for which Gore was frequently criticized during his years in the Senate and the White House.

Indeed, his aides and allies are framing it as a "call to arms" in defense of the Bill of Rights and the rule of law in a time of executive excess.

The vice president will, according to the groups that have arranged for his appearance -- the bipartisan Liberty Coalition and the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy -- address "the threat posed by policies of the Bush Administration to the Constitution and the checks and balances it created. The speech will specifically point to domestic wiretapping and torture as examples of the administration's efforts to extend executive power beyond Congressional direction and judicial review."

You can read the rest here. Also, check out the CurrentTV web site if you haven't already. And, if you don't have cable, you can tune in to Gore's speech on C-SPAN. It is scheduled to air approximately from noon to 3 p.m. E.S.T.

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