Sentences with phrase «impeachment over»

News Express recalled that several Nigerian lawmakers have lambasted the President over the payment of $ 496mn for the purchase of Tucano jets without the approval of the National Assembly and even threatened him with impeachment over the issue.

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

Kingsley Chinda, the Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, has called for President Muhammadu Buhari's impeachment over the withdrawal of $ 462million to pay for...

Kingsley Chinda, the Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, has called for President Muhammadu Buhari's impeachment over the withdrawal of $ 462million to pay for 12 Super Tucano jets.

Not exact matches

But the Congressional members who voted on the impeachment measure over the weekend need to take another step in the right direction if they want to regain the trust of the Brazilian people and foreign investors; they should impeach themselves.

Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the ongoing special counsel probe, setting up a possible GOP showdown over the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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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.

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.

Also, Hall's contemplation of impeachment could be a little much for this largely suburban district that elected George Bush by nine points over John Kerry.

One can make whatever argument you wishes to the House considering an impeachment, or to the Senate trying an impeachment, but ultimately, this would be about convincing representatives and senators to agree with your argument, not convincing a judge (although a judge does preside over a Presidential impeachment and senators might be inclined to defer to the rulings of that judge).

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 court.

The impeachment proceedings against Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State may not be over soon as a Federal High Court sitting in Enugu has retrained the...

Both comments came after incoming House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R - La., declined to take impeachment off the table on Fox News over the weekend.

The Ekiti State House of Assembly has raised the alarm over plot to coerce some of its members into impeaching Governor Ayodele Fayose, saying a sum of $ 1 million was being promised some of the members who will be part of the impeachment plot.

Just over two years later, on August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned rather than face an impeachment trial.

The threat of impeachment looms increasingly large over midterm season, setting up a battle between Democrats looking to downplay it and Republicans hoping to prove its legitimacy.

Article II of the Constitution prohibits a President from using the pardon power to overturn an impeachment.5 The Framers of the Constitution placed only this limitation on the ability of the President to exercise his pardon power, 6 and the only sanction for the abuse of the pardon power is the removal of the President through impeachment.7 The Constitution is silent, however, as to whether the President may grant himself a pardon from prosecution and, if so, when such a pardon may be issued.8 In the over 20,000 instances that Presidents have used this exclusive power, 9 no President has used this power to pardon himself.10

As he humbly recounts his heroic accomplishments of cleaning up the traffic court, instituting night court for criminal drug cases in order to best use limited resources in the fairest manner, and presiding over the historical impeachment trial of former Governor Rod Blagojevich, Justice Fitzgerald repeatedly reminds lawyers that they are guardians or champions of the legal process.

Among other constitutional duties, the Chief Justice presides or designates another Justice to preside over impeachment proceedings in the Senate.