Sentences with phrase «impeachment proceedings»

Mr. Lowell has been counsel to the US House of Representatives twice, most recently when he was Chief Minority Counsel during impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and before that as special ethics counsel to the House Committee of Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics Committee).

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

Defended probate court judge in judicial impeachment proceedings and before the Connecticut Supreme Court in the only impeachment to occur in the history of the Connecticut House of Representatives.

When President Bill Clinton needed legal advice for a variety of personal issues he faced in office, including his impeachment proceedings, he went to fellow Rhodes scholar David E. Kendall.

The pieces on the table are ceramics, priced at $ 1,500 to $ 7,500, and have messages like «impeachment proceedings.»

It seems impossible that Spitzer would be able to continue on as governor (in about 24 hours state Republicans will start impeachment proceedings against him), and yet he hasn't resigned.

Knowing Albany, impeachment proceedings would gum up all of the legislative machinery, and cause another humiliating spectacle after last year's State Senate shenanigans.

However, taking this approach may lead to adverse political consequences for the President - such as loss of popularity; failure to re-elect down the road at the milder end of the spectrum; to higher end of the spectrum where such (in) action may be used as an excuse to remove the President before the election via either impeachment proceedings in Congress or the use of the powers granted in the 25th Amendment by the Executive branch.

Recalled that the leader of a South African opposition party, Julius Malema, filed for disciplinary or impeachment proceedings against Zuma in a court application.

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...

Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Monday morning commenced impeachment proceedings against Governor Sullivan Chime of the State.

The dispute prompted Donald Morgenstern, a longtime activist and executive board member, to write a letter raising the possibility of impeachment proceedings.

The impeachment proceedings will end with a vote of all voting members of the organization with a majority being 50 % +1.

Double jeopardy is a pretty fundamental element to the US criminal justice system, but does it apply to a US President (or other impeachable official) and the trial - like impeachment proceedings in Congress?

And what are the odds that the House GOP crazies will initiate impeachment proceedings against Barack by next year?

An appeal to the precedents of prior non-Presidential impeachment proceedings might be relevant and considered seriously by members of Congress in making their decisions.

A Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Evans Aggrey Darko, has cautioned that possible impeachment proceedings against some top officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) must not compromise the Commission's mandate.

New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmakers in Ghana's Legislature have started collecting signatures of Members in the House in a bold move that insiders say could lead to a push for impeachment proceedings against President John Dramani Mahama.

what the framers of the constitution really intended was that confidentiality and privacy should apply to impeachment proceedings under this article.

«The constitutional requirement that the impeachment proceedings be held in camera would be defeated if the petitioner were allowed to publish his or her petition to anyone other than the President.

In the Agyei — Twum Case the Supreme Court was very clear that the privacy of impeachment proceedings extends even to the moment the petition is presented to the President and is referred to the Chief Justice.

For more fun reading, see this even lengthier Senate PROCEDURE AND GUIDELINES FOR IMPEACHMENT TRIALS, which includes details of past impeachment proceedings.

While, the NPP MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko, claims the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adzaho, has summoned the legislators to the House to commence investigations into circumstances surrounding the car gift to President Mahama, his boss, the Minority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu, has denied knowledge of any impeachment proceedings at the instance of his side.

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.

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 PDP supporters were at the airport to give a rousing welcome to Senator Urhoghide for moving the motion for the Senate to begin impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari.

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

In other words, the House of Representatives has the power to start impeachment proceedings and the Senate has the power to perform the impeachment trial.

This failure is almost certainly the result, in part, of a second term during which the president and Congress were distracted with impeachment proceedings and other wranglings.

Regardless of whether Muller has completed his investigation, it would increase the risk of Democrats beginning impeachment proceedings against Trump.

With impeachment proceedings reaching the senate just before Petrobras» annual meeting, the meeting is likely to be yet another boisterous affair.

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.

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.

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

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.

Also in the past two days, opposition leaders in the Ukrainian parliament have demanded impeachment proceedings against President Petro Poroshenko, who allegedly owned assorted assets through a British Virgin Islands holding company.

On Tuesday, members of parliament in Zimbabwe started impeachment proceedings against Mugabe.

Not exact matches

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.