Word: impeach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed by willfully ignoring the laws and by endeavoring to impede and obstruct their proper execution. In all this, he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors in the conduct of his Office, for which the House of Representatives do impeach...
...Watergate debacle has pointed up yet another flaw in our system of Government: with a four-year presidential term, you just don't have enough time to impeach...
Marshall: How are you going to impeach him if you don't know about it? You're on the prongs of a dilemma, huh? [When St. Clair demurred, Marshall pushed on.] If you know the President is doing something wrong, you can impeach him. But the only way you can find out is this way, so you don't impeach him. You lose me some place along there...
...issues. The far-reaching decisions on racial discrimination and individual rights, beginning with the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka school desegregation ruling of 1954, were applauded by civil libertarians-and just as vigorously denounced by a variety of critics. Segregationists and John Birchers put up billboards demanding IMPEACH WARREN; religious traditionalists protested the court's 1962-63 bans on classroom prayers and urged the court to "put God back in the schools." Law-and-Order Candidate Richard Nixon invariably drew cheers in 1968 when he accused the court of rulings that freed "patently guilty criminals...
...survey indicates that the House will probably vote to impeach Nixon by more than a narrow margin. On the other hand, it suggests that the vote may not be spectacular enough to move the Senate to convict the President by the necessary two-thirds majority and thereby remove him from office. In any event, the mood in both chambers of Congress will be greatly influenced by the historic decision now facing the Supreme Court...