Word: impeach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When we get the necessary evidence assembled." says Macapagal, "we plan to bring criminal charges against this man. And then we will impeach...
...answer charges of waste in 15 government agencies. Four times Yui refused. When Yui rejected a fifth summons on the ground that, under the constitution, he does not have to answer to the Control Yuan, the legislators' pent-up frustration exploded. The Control Yuan formally voted to impeach the Premier...
Massively backed, Perón razed Argentine democracy. He turned Congress into a Peronista rubber stamp, had it impeach and convict the balky Supreme Court. In a rewritten "social-justice" constitution, he legalized the re-election of Presidents for his own benefit, gave the state power to "intervene in the economy." He deluged the country with billboard propaganda: "Peron Fulfills, Evita Dignifies." With malicious glee he seized Buenos Aires' La Prensa, long famed as one of the world's topflight newspapers, turned it into a mouthpiece for the C.G.T. And with engaging buffoonery, he joked...
...reason they had to impeach...
...result would have been different had the recordings been used to impeach verdicts or incriminate jurors, and properly so, as such use of them would have converted the project into another version of Mr. Justice Holmes's "dirty business." The purpose of the study, however, was no more than an inquiry into the different ways juries reach their verdicts, some of them proper and some of them, to the dismay of lawyers now and in the past, altogether improper. But just as they may be trusted on practical problems, the judges and lawyers may be trusted to tell the difference...