Sentences with phrase «as impeachment»

Impeaching Your Own Witness: Even though Evidence Rule 607 authorizes a party to impeach the credibility of his own witness, a party is forbidden from placing a witness on the stand if his sole purpose in doing so is to present otherwise inadmissible evidence cloaked as impeachment.

If you've to go back three pages to find out who «he» and «him» refers to, it makes the deposition transcript very unmanageable as an impeachment tool.

In Landolfi, the test for admissibility of surveillance as impeachment evidence was found to be one of «relevance to the credibility of a witness on a material matter and a further demonstration that the potential value of the proffered evidence to assist in assessing credibility outweighs prejudicial effect of the evidence.

While Meek's Cutoff works well as a pensive musing on homesteader survival and as an impeachment of Manifest Destiny and imperial expansion, it also contains attenuated matriarchal temperament, which is pretty commonplace for a seer such as Reichardt.

As far as impeachment over the NSA thing, I think it would make the Democratic party a permanent, and even smaller, minority party.

On the other hand, willingly ignoring both the law, legislative intent, and the Constitution undoubtedly qualifies as impeachment material, should they want to pursue that.

Actually, so was I, Akira, because I can think of other things that are suitable for him that aren't nearly as polite as impeachment...

Other political disputes, such as the impeachments of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and South Korea's President Park Geun - hye, also bear watching.

Not exact matches

Lawmakers have told Trump to allow the investigation to run its course and not to impede, as it could lead to a constitutional crisis and a potential impeachment.

The president was widely accused of obstruction of justice in the wake of Comey's firing, and some members of Congress went as far to call for his impeachment.

Trump - allied House conservatives draft articles of impeachment against Rosenstein as «last resort» Robert Costa et al., The Washington Post

To gauge the effects a particular development will have on the index, GeoQuant relies on historical trends that serve as corollaries to current events — for instance, impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

The past 24 hours of news in President Donald Trump's various legal imbroglios — the replacement of outgoing lawyer Ty Cobb with Emmet T. Flood, who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment as president, and the admission of Rudy Giuliani to Sean Hannity (subsequently confirmed by Trump on Twitter) that Trump did in fact reimburse Michael Cohen for a $ 130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election — are powerful reminders of something that can't be said often enough: Trump and his White House lie all the time, without apparent compunction.

As Breitbart News reported, the Washington Post and the Hill obtained a copy of the eight articles of impeachment drawn up by the conservative House Freedom Caucus against Rosenstein because he has not provided the documentation requested as part an investigation into FBI surveillance during the 2016 presidential electioAs Breitbart News reported, the Washington Post and the Hill obtained a copy of the eight articles of impeachment drawn up by the conservative House Freedom Caucus against Rosenstein because he has not provided the documentation requested as part an investigation into FBI surveillance during the 2016 presidential electioas part an investigation into FBI surveillance during the 2016 presidential election.

During a portion of an interview with NBC News National Political Reporter Heidi Przybyla, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - NV) stated, «the less we talk about impeachment, the better off we are as a country.»

It is depressing, for example, to see liberals working so hard for Nixon's impeachment, as if he were the enemy, as if changing the occupant of the White House would really begin to touch the forces and powers for whom the occupant of the White House, wittingly or unwittingly, is a mere flunky.

He was frustrated by the radicals, whom Kennedy describes as «frenzied» and «fanatical,» and who engineered his impeachment.

The 2010 campaign was also highly personalized, although not in the usual sense of focusing mainly on the President's character attributes, as was the case in the Clinton «impeachment» mid-term election of 1998.

Some of the Birch literature called for the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren and spoke of President Eisenhower as a «dupe» of the Communists.

No doubt Obama will have growing reason to fear the embarassment of impeachment as Congress continues to gather information from a variety of under - oath and technical sources.

As well the latter as the former seem to have regarded the practice of impeachments as a bridle in the hands of the legislative body upon the executive servants of the governmenAs well the latter as the former seem to have regarded the practice of impeachments as a bridle in the hands of the legislative body upon the executive servants of the governmenas the former seem to have regarded the practice of impeachments as a bridle in the hands of the legislative body upon the executive servants of the governmenas a bridle in the hands of the legislative body upon the executive servants of the government.

The main take - away from all the above is this: Hamilton, the likely author of # 65, and Madison and Jay also, to the extent this particular paper was run by them in advance (scholars think such a preview was done sometimes, but not generally), did not understood impeachment for «high crimes and misdemeanors» as referring to an easily defined category.

And to repeat, the farthest I go is to call upon Republican members of the House to begin airing threats of impeachment, as way to restrain Obama from further egregious violations of the Constitution, and as a way to put it on record that those violations did provoke attempts to employ the sort of check spoken of in Federalist # 51.

So just as the veto is the primary check the executive has against the legislative branch, that of impeachment is the primary check the legislative branch has against the executive one, although it can be used against judges and any other «Civil officers.»

So, there is no textual constitutional barrier to Barack Obama's impeachment; this is even more obvious when the relevant passages are understood as The Federalist understands them.

There is a brief mention in Article III of jury trial not being available for impeachment, and there is probably a suggestion in Article I that members of Congress will not usually be impeached, as each house has the power to (I, 5) to expel one of their members on their own.

You can't wipe a refs (even as expired as old Mike) by street protesting or legal impeachment.

Even assuming he signed it, the bill would theoretically be a law re-appointing Mueller as special prosecutor / independent investigator, which Congress is already capable of doing via impeachment, select committees, etc..

South Korean MPs are often quoted as saying that they voted for impeachment under the pressure of popular demand, though opposition parties tend to cast this pressure in a positive light.

But Ivor Greenstreet has described calls for the impeachment of his «good brother» as «ridiculous».

Impeachment proceedings against Mugabe began earlier on Tuesday as the ruling party, Zanu - PF, attempted to remove him from office.

Will the people Trump pardoned, such as Joe Arpaio and Scooter Libby remain vindicated in the event of Trump's impeachment?

As a ground for impeachment, it would also be proper for the Deputy Chairpersons to be impeached for all the times they have taken unauthorized leaves and travelled within and outside the jurisdiction, without the approval of the Chairperson.

As Republicans proved in 1996, Impeachment is easy but removal is hard.

Edit 2: As clarification I am looking for instances, case law, or references that would indicate the Congress can bring Articles of Impeachment for crimes committed prior to the individual actually taking office.

As the MSM quotes un-named sources, via Intel & Administration leaking, with daily coordinated MSM News Dumps, to push for the Impeachment of our President!

Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu, downplayed this, stating that the Minority was pushing for an appraisal of the Ford saga and had not, as yet, considered starting impeachment processes.

The conservative attack dogs are snarling, showing sharpened teeth, as the clamor for possible impeachment of Obama gains steam.

As an allegation supporting an impeachment process, this would be the first time that posture, that «could have» had a certain effect but did not, would be a supporting ground for a constitutional impeachment process.

Please note that there is no precedent for your «gets forced out» as no president has ever been forcibly removed from office as the result of an impeachment.

I couldn't find any constitutional or procedural prohibition for the House considering impeachment of two people as part of the same proceedings, and if the committee is investigating the same set of facts, it makes a lot of sense to not have to repeat their work.

The crux of my argument is that impeachment is already handled as a collection of «charges» (the articles of impeachment).

Liberal take: Dems Shouldn't Count on Watergate Repeat Even as leading Democrats try to tamp down talk of impeachment, President Trump's legal challenges invariably invite comparisons to Richard Nixon, says...

Guy Smith, a retired executive who served as a spokesman for President Bill Clinton during the impeachment process, has said he intends to collect signatures to win a place on the August primary ballot.

The surprise announcement came as lawmakers debated an impeachment motion against the 93 - year - old leader in a joint sitting of parliament.

... We are very close and there are a number of options available to us as Minority to exploit including the impeachment of the Speaker.

But Senator Abu Ibrahim described the impeachment call as «a PDP conspiracy.»

She worked for President Bill Clinton as Deputy Communications Director at the White House during his administration «to help restore Mr. Clinton's image in the aftermath of (his) impeachment and Monica Lewinsky», [2] and as Associate Administrator for Communications at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Umar, fondly known as UTC, was chosen by the late Governor Danbaba Suntai as his deputy after the impeachment of the then Deputy Governor, Sani Abubakar.

Ladies and Gentlemen, as can be noted from the motion, contrary to the claims being made by members of the minority and their surrogates in the media that this recall of Parliament is to impeach His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama, nowhere in their motion is there the remotest suggestion of impeachment of the President.