Sentences with phrase «impeachable offense»
An "impeachable offense" refers to a serious wrongdoing committed by a high-ranking government official, typically a president or other executive leader. When such an offense occurs, it can lead to the official being charged with or accused of misconduct, which could result in their removal from office through the impeachment process. Full definition
That is, the claim here is that Federalist # 65 is open to a broader sort of impeachable offense than specific statutory crimes or violations of the Constitution.
firstthings.com
Rousseff's impeachable offense was for playing fast and loose with the nation's budget; essentially fudging the numbers to make the budget deficit look smaller than it really was.
Asked if that sort of interference would amount to an impeachable offense, he replied, «I don't have the slightest idea.»
that the hiring of a special prosecutor «and talk about obstruction of justice being an impeachable offense» could push back efforts to enact Trump's tax reform and fiscal stimulus proposals for months.
Andy Brenner, head of international fixed income securities at National Alliance Securities, said in a note that the hiring of a special prosecutor «and talk about obstruction of justice being an impeachable offense» could push back efforts to enact Trump's tax reform and fiscal stimulus proposals for months.
If true, this suggests obstruction of justice, an impeachable offense.
An impeachable offense in case you may have forgotten Watergate.
An impeachable offense is basically whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
At the end of the day, Congress has to define what it sees as an Impeachable offense.
The sophisticated version of the Ford argument — not attributable to Ford, of course — is basically that the framers offered a squishy definition in faith that Congress would know an impeachable offense when it saw one.
Among members of the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, there was spirited discussion of what constitutes an impeachable offense.
This is an impeachable offense,» Senator Chukwuka Utazi, representing Enugu North constituency said.
This would be an impeachable offense.
HB 246 was discussed in the previous post mentioned above, and would have added an additional provision to RSA 519:23 - a that the refusal by a judge to administer jury nullification instructions be considered maladministration, an impeachable offense.
Now, proponents have returned with a new bill (HB 246) that drops the Cote language and specifically addresses the Wentworth instruction by making it, in effect, an impeachable offense.
Georgia's Senate last week approved its version of a House bill that would give Municipal Court judges set terms in office of at least 1 year and prohibit local governments from removing them from office unless they committed what amounted to an impeachable offense.
HCR 2006 would have allowed the state's legislature to remove from office on a 2 / 3rds vote judges appointed under such a system without the need to prove an impeachable offense.