Sentences with phrase «grounds for the impeachment»

Since removing a president is a political process, not a legal one, anything can be grounds for impeachment if enough members of Congress say it is.

These alone constitute more than adequate grounds for impeachment, while hardly scratching the surface.

Among the «high crimes and misdemeanors» that, under other political circumstances, would surely constitute the Constitutional grounds for impeachment are these: the President and his top officials pressured the Central Intelligence Agency to put together a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's nuclear weapons that both the administration and the Agency knew to be patently dishonest.

The conditional provision states that matters that may bring the office of the President into public ridicule and even matters that subject the whole country to embarrassment are grounds for impeachment.

If the full committee, by majority vote, determines that grounds for impeachment exist, a resolution impeaching the individual in question and setting forth specific allegations of misconduct, in one or more articles of impeachment, will be reported to the full House.

(CNN)-- Sen. Tom Coburn became the latest Republican lawmaker to link President Barack Obama to potential grounds for impeachment during a town hall Wednesday.

A report by the Daily Guide Newspaper indicates that there appears to be sufficient grounds for impeachment of the EC officers involved, who are at loggerheads, thereby jeopardizing the operation of the commission.

What this hypothetical president is calling for is unconstitutional, is almost certainly grounds for impeachment, and may even be criminal, but treason it ain't.

Specifically, it finds a judge who uses only a Wentworth instruction commits «an act of maladministration» which is grounds for impeachment under Art. 38 of the New Hampshire Constitution.

SB 439 Specifies grounds for impeachment of Kansas Supreme Court justice and District Court judges chosen via merit / commission system to include «attempting to subvert fundamental laws and introduce arbitrary power, attempting to usurp the power of the legislative or executive branch of government, exhibiting wanton or reckless judicial conduct.»

It is possible that a president could engage in a criminal act such as theft, and that is not permitted and would be grounds for impeachment.

Not exact matches

But the residents addressing a press conference in Tamale say calls for the Mayor's impeachment on the grounds of the allegations are not enough to merit their support and they must rescind it.