John C. Bonifaz

John C. Bonifaz, a Boston attorney with the Law Offices of Cristobal Bonifaz, is the "founder and general counsel of the National Voting Rights Institute (founded 1994) based in Boston, a national non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting the constitutional right of all citizens to vote and to participate in the electoral process on an equal and meaningful basis." The NVRI served as co-counsel for Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb and Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik in their demand for a full recount of all votes cast in Ohio for President" in U.S. presidential election, 2004.

Warrior-King: The Case For Impeaching George W. Bush
"In February and March 2003, prior to the start of the Iraq War, Bonifaz served as lead counsel for a coalition of United States soldiers, parents of U.S. soldiers, and Members of Congress in a federal lawsuit against President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, seeking to prevent them from waging an undeclared and illegal war. On the eve of the war, a federal appellate court refused to intervene, citing 'political question concerns.' Warrior-King is an accounting of that case and an examination of its legal and political implications for the future of the U.S. Constitution." 

Affiliations

 * Board Member, Equal Justice Society

Publications

 * Warrior-King: The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush, Preface by Representative John Conyers, Jr., Nation Books (January 2004), ISBN 1560256060.

Related SourceWatch Resources

 * After Downing Street
 * The case for impeachment of President George W. Bush
 * war in Iraq

Websites

 * National Voting Rights Institute website.

Biographical

 * John C. Bonifaz on ireadnet.com. Includes video links.

By John C. Bonifaz

 * With Stephanie Wilson, "'Millionaire Amendment' Corrupts McCain-Feingold Bill," Boston Globe, March 28, 2001.
 * "Supreme Court Soft on Hard Money Contributions," Tom Paine.Common Sense, 2004.
 * John C. Bonifaz, "The First Lie," Tom Paine.Common Sense, May 7, 2004.

Interviews

 * Interview: John Bonifaz, Author of Warrior-King: The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush, BuzzFlash, April 29, 2004.

Articles & Commentary

 * Thanassis Cambanis, "Suit challenges right to wage Iraq war. Six in Congress, soldiers, kin ask for federal stay," Boston Globe, February 14, 2003.
 * Michael Powell, "Appeals Court Weighs Bush's War Powers," Washington Post, March 12, 2003.