The petitioners requesting impeachment of Attorney General Daniel Cameron have filed a response to the charges in his latest response. They note that his response attacked the petitioners, the lawyers who filed the petition, and the grand jurors on the Breonna Taylor case. The response states: “Simply put, AG Cameron needs to stop the distraction and answer the questions raised by his Impeachment Petition. His continuing failure to respond is an affront to this inquiry.”
Initial defense of the impeachment petition
The first three sections of the petitioner’s response defends the impeachment effort itself, as follows:
The Attorney General fails to understand the substance of Article I of the petition.
From the response: “The Attorney General’s counsel spend the bulk of the brief focusing on what a grand jury does and various minutiae involved in the grand jury process. That focus is irrelevant to the matter before this body. The Impeachment Petition against the Attorney General is not about whether the lawyers before the grand jury were good lawyers or whether the AG likes them. Instead, the Impeachment Petition asks whether the AG lied to or misled the public during his inappropriate hour long speech to national media after the grand jury completed its work.”
The impeachment petition is properly before this body.
From the response: “The complaints by counsel for the Attorney General that the Petition is somehow not in a proper form or can’t be considered an affidavit despite the clear affidavit language contained in the Petition, are without merit. … The Petition and Affidavit in this case does exactly what the law requires – provides sworn complaints and assertions of law and fact for this body to review.”
Criminal offenses against Cameron are clearly charged.
From the response: “AG Cameron claims that no misdemeanor or other offenses have been raised in the Impeachment Petition. That assertion is incorrect. Numerous criminal offenses are clear from a simple reading of the Impeachment Petition, including inciting domestic terrorism and riot.”
Restatement of the charges against AG Cameron
The rest of the petitioners’ response relists the charges against Attorney General Cameron as the basis for the impeachment petition. The following is summarized from the press release accompanying the release of the response.
Misrepresenting grand jurors’ actions
As part of his defense, the Attorney General claims that the Grand Jurors were shown the relevant law “projected on a wall.” This claim has never before been made and is rejected by the grand jurors.
Also new: Grand Jurors say they requested key evidence (witness interviews, body cam footage) which was refused by prosecutors.
Our recommendation: The AG should produce any evidence supporting his claims, as requested in the discovery filed by the Petitioners
Recruiting rioters via robocalls
The Attorney General claims that the former executive director of the Republican Attorney Generals Association, Adam Piper, is his alibi witness, and can refute all charges related to Cameron’s involvement in the robocalls related to the Capitol insurrection.
Our recommendation: AG Cameron should produce his evidence, as requested in discovery filed by the Petitioners.
Attacking the election of another state
The Attorney General claims he only filed two such attacks before refusing to sign the third.
Our recommendation: Each state validates its own election. It is an abuse of power to attack a sister state, and invites interference with elections here in Kentucky.
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