Many religious leaders across the United States questioned the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to serve as the Attorney General of the United States – I was one of them. Gonzales already had a reputation at that point for being dishonest but worse than that he was also the one who gave the White House the (faulty and immoral) legal justification for torturing so-called enemy combatants.

His tenure at the Justice Department has resulted in one scandal after another and even Republicans in the U.S. Senate are calling on him to resign or for the president to fire him. Each time he testifies before Congress he tells one lie after another to either protect himself or his masters in the West Wing.

This weekend The New York Times ran an editorial that said:

Democratic lawmakers are asking for a special prosecutor to look into Mr. Gonzales’s words and deeds. Solicitor General Paul Clement has a last chance to show that the Justice Department is still minimally functional by fulfilling that request.

If that does not happen, Congress should impeach Mr. Gonzales.

Impeaching the president and/or the vice-president is a cause championed by some on the left but that is a fool’s errand. Impeaching Gonzales, on the other hand, seems doable and it may be necessary to restore law and order to the nation.