Sentences with phrase «try impeachments»

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.

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).

Not exact matches

Trump is being tried now in the court of public opinion, and he is likely to be tried later by Congress during an impeachment inquiry.

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

In other words, it is up to Congress to decide whether it has followed the Constitutional impeachment procedure — including whether the President is being tried for a «high crime [or] misdemeanor».

Liberal take: Dems Shouldn't Count on Watergate Repeat Even as leading Democrats try to tamp down talk of impeachment, President Trump's legal challenges invariably invite comparisons to Richard Nixon, says...

It is obvious that those who had tried unsuccessfully to impeach Mr. Afoko and found the bar to impeachment to high carefully planned and executed this despicable coup.

On request of any party in a case tried before a jury, deposition testimony offered other than for impeachment purposes shall be presented in nonstenographic form, if available, unless the court for good cause orders otherwise.

He would in theory not be tried before the trial (this was a major source of trouble prior to the Clinton Impeachment).