Sentences with phrase «impeachment from»

In theory the house could be split in such a way as to prevent articles of impeachment from ever being drafted let alone voted on

Following a threat of impeachment from some Assembly Members, the Tamale Metropolitan Chief Executive, Iddrisu Musah, also known as Musah Superior, has refuted allegations of abuse of power, put forth by the 31 members who have resolved to pass a vote of no confidence against him.

In fact, the absolute corruption in Ulrich's brief political life alone is so egregious and unconscionable, that it demands an investigation that concludes with impeachment from public service — and banished for life.

Not exact matches

The major Brazilian stock index, the Bovespa, has largely recovered from last year's lows on anticipation of a Rousseff impeachment.

The Constitution says the president (and vice president and judges and members of the cabinet) «shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.»

For Trump in particular, complete transparency could backfire by amplifying suspicion and further escalating calls for his impeachment on allegations of obstructing justice, accepting gifts from foreign powers, or treason.

So far, established constitutional limits on the president's pardon power prevent it from affecting impeachment proceedings and bar it from being applicable to state crimes.

That high approval level, plus his majority in the Philippine Congress, may insulate Duterte from moves toward impeachment.

In 1932, he resigned from the Treasury amidst accusations of improper business ties and impeachment proceedings.

Missouri House and Senate leaders are expected to announce Thursday night that they have gathered enough support from lawmakers to call the state legislature into a special session for impeachment proceedings against Gov. Eric Greitens.

South Korean markets were generally stable after the country's president, Park Geun - hye, was removed from office by a court ruling, which upheld her impeachment by the South Korean parliament at the end of 2016.

In 1998, at the height of the Clinton impeachment battle, evangelical voters were constantly confronting accusations from their secular, leftist friends that «it was all politics,» that evangelicals were less concerned with Bill Clinton's indiscretions than they were about his party identification.

Clinton was accused of using cruise missiles to distract the American public from the on - going impeachment process.

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.

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

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.

(At that time the right complained that he was merely trying to distract the American public from his impeachment with boogeyman stories about terrorists.)

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

At PredictIt, a New Zealand - based online market for political bettors, Trump impeachment odds have risen from 5 % to nearly 35 % over the past week.

Although there is a precedent of presidential impeachment in South Korea dating from 2004, it was in the end reversed by the court partly because then President Roh Moo - hyun had overwhelming public support.

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High crimes and Misdemeanors.

The only mechanism for removing the vice president from office is impeachment by the House of Representatives followed by conviction by the Senate.

In the United States the President of the United States may involuntarily be removed from office through impeachment.

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

Other impeachments have featured judges taking the bench when drunk or profiting from their position.

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

This also means that the only real punishments impeachment can carry is removal from office and / or a ban on running for elected office in Federal Government (not sure on state level).

Following reports that Mr. Adjaho, has summoned MPs from recess for a one week sitting beginning Thursday, September 1, there have been claims that the Minority, requested the summons in order to initiate impeachment processes against President Mahama.

Specifically, these modern tribunes would be entitled to veto one piece of congressional legislation, one executive order and one Supreme Court decision; to call one national referendum, over any issue they wish (only two - thirds votes of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives may render the statute unconstitutional); and to initiate impeachment proceedings against one Federal official from each of the three branches of government during their term of office.

The white smoke emanating from the White House west wing Friday may signal the Obama administration is burning documents in anticipation of coming impeachment proceedings.

If 2/3 of the Senators vote for Impeachment, the President is removed from office and the Vice President takes his place.

I. Whensoever the Senate shall receive notice from the House of Representatives that managers are appointed on their part to conduct an impeachment against any person and are directed to carry articles of impeachment to the Senate...

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.

Some senators at the plenary on Thursday, called for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari for allowing the withdrawal of $ 496m from the Excess Crude Account to purchase military aircraft without National Assembly's approval.

A former President of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), Chief Adebayo Oyero in his welcome address said that the IEF was formed with the original aim of returning Senator Rashidi Ladoja to office, stemming from his unsavory impeachment saga.

What you could do is propose an amendment to the bylaws before the impeachment process which fixes that hole by rewriting the above part to exclude the accused from the vote for impeachment.

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.

So unless your bylaws have a clause which explicitly says that people are exempt from voting during their own impeachment, the normal voting rights apply.

II, § 4: «The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.»

«So, once Fayose can prove that he was illegally removed and that illegality has been confirmed by a court of law, it means that in the eyes of the law, he was still a governor but was prevented from acting during the impeachment.

The governor was impeached in 2006, but the Supreme Court, in 2014, nullified the impeachment that ousted him from office about seven months to the end of his first term, describing the removal as illegal.

Steve Brown, spokesman for Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, confirms to CNN that the impeachment panel received the letter from Blagojevich attorney Ed Genson.

But unlike Dikko, Buhari was more forthcoming when he further said the Federal Executive Council must save the nation from the current agony by declaring the president incapacitated to pave the way for his impeachment.

From the abandonment of the party's clear procedure on impeachment to the improper referral of bogus complaints to the Disciplinary Committee to the faulty convening of the National Executive Committee by a man who stood to benefit from the action, there are enough errors to reverse Mr. Afoko's removal ten times over in coFrom the abandonment of the party's clear procedure on impeachment to the improper referral of bogus complaints to the Disciplinary Committee to the faulty convening of the National Executive Committee by a man who stood to benefit from the action, there are enough errors to reverse Mr. Afoko's removal ten times over in cofrom the action, there are enough errors to reverse Mr. Afoko's removal ten times over in court.

Trump understands that there are deeply unhappy people in this country and he caters to them in the hope of cobbling together a second winning coalition that will save him from impeachment.

Sixty - one senators voted in favour of her impeachment and 20 against, meeting the two - thirds majority needed to remove her from the presidency.

It was gathered that the impeachment took place at early hours of Thursday and the impeachment notice was signed by twenty two from twenty nine lawmakers of the Assembly.

If say the President oversteps his or her powers, impeachment trials could be held to remove the person from office.

With a full - page ad in the Washington Post, «Hustler» publisher Larry Flynt has offered a $ 10 million bounty for anyone with information on the president that would lead to his «impeachment and removal from office.»