A group of former Breonna Taylor grand jurors have filed an impeachment petition targeting Attorney General Daniel Cameron. The petition was filed by Anna Whites and Kevin Glogower.
The petition, sent to the Kentucky House and requesting “immediate review and impeachment,” alleges Cameron engaged in “misdemeanors in office,” including:
- “Incitement of insurrection
- Breach of public trust
- Failure to comply with duties imposed on him as the chief law enforcement official
- Abuse of office and state property, and other misfeasance and malfeasance as outlined herein.”
In the press release announcing the filing of the impeachment petition, counsel Kevin Glogower stated
“The Grand Jurors did not choose this battle. This battle chose them. These are randomly selected citizens who were compelled to sit on a grand jury and were terribly misused by the most powerful law enforcement official in Kentucky. It is truly a testament to the Kentucky Constitution that they are able to be here today and to expose injustice and demand public accountability. I am honored and humbled to serve them.”
Glogower signed for the petitioners in order to protect their identities.
The Breonna Taylor grand jury
The impeachment petition goes into some detail about the Taylor grand jury and Cameron’s role in it. The petition then states:
“With regard to the murder of Breonna Taylor, a citizen and resident of Louisville, Kentucky, Attorney General Cameron has misled the public and misrepresented the actions of the citizens serving on the Breonna Taylor Grand Jury.
“Attorney General Cameron used Ms. Taylor’s name in a joking or political manner at the Trump convention, inflicting further severe and permanent emotional distress on her friends and family.
“Attorney General Cameron deceived the American people and the citizens of this Commonwealth with regard to his office’s handling and involvement in the Breonna Taylor investigation and the resulting legal actions.”
Each of these assertions is then backed up by further details, including references to the Kentucky Rules of Professional Conduct, which the petition asserts Cameron violated in multiple ways. The petition notes that the Kentucky Supreme Court could decide to relieve Cameron of his law license based on these actions.
Incitement of insurrection
The second section of the impeachment petition deals with Cameron’s position on the Executive Committee of the Republican Attorney Generals Association (RAGA). RAGA’s dark money PAC, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, paid for robocalls encouraging people to attend the rally in Washington on January 6th, which led to the terrorist insurrection in the Capitol.
According to the petition,
As a member of RAGA’s 9 person Executive Committee AG Cameron supported the efforts to goad, encourage, and fund the attacks on the Capitol and failed and refused to notify the FBI or other authorities who could have prevented the murders and damage had they known of the concerns in advance. These are ongoing breaches of his duty as a Kentucky lawyer and his duties as the state’s Attorney General.
The petition references a specific anti-terrorism law, and then states “Kentucky’s Attorney General may have participated in activities violating this federal law.”
Misuse of taxpayer funds
The final section of the impeachment petition asserts that Cameron misspent Kentucky taxpayer funds by joining the lawsuit to throw out the Pennsylvania election results. As noted by the petition,
No legitimate reason supports Cameron’s attack on the votes in a sister state. This irresponsible action invites other states to challenge Kentucky’s voting, thereby endangering this Commonwealth’s most basic freedom.
Petitioners allege that Cameron misused his office to promote his own political aspirations and overstepped his authority by supporting failed lawsuits in foreign jurisdictions which attacked American voters.
These highly partisan political activities are inappropriate to the office of Attorney General and serve only to promote personal political ambitions at the expense of Kentucky taxpayers.
This constitutes a breach of Cameron’s legal and fiduciary duty to Kentuckians and justifies articles of impeachment.
Conclusion
In addition to asking that Attorney General Cameron be impeached, the petition also asks that he “further be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust or profit under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and that all costs of this proceeding be charged to him.”
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