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...Control Yuan, an upper house with powers suggesting those of the Roman censors,* elected every six years by provincial assemblies; it has power to impeach officials and make audits; and 3) the National Assembly...
...Peronist press calls Argentina's Supreme Court the "last bulwark of the oligarchy." Peron has apparently decided to move in on it. Deputy Rodolfo Decker, Peronist bloc leader, last week called on Congress to impeach four of the present justices...
Through two long hearings and bales of newspaper editorials, the campaign never let up. Once it reached such heights that hot-headed Congressmen wanted to impeach Labor Secretary Frances Perkins for ordering a stay in the proceedings. In 1942, with the country at war and Red-loving Harry Bridges furiously loading ships for Russia and the Allies, the case seemed finally washed out. Then suddenly, inexplicably, Attorney General Francis Biddle opened it again, ordered Harry Bridges deported...
...protection has not been achieved by any hard-&-fast "separation of the powers" into executive, legislative and judiciary. The powers of the various agencies of government, he says, have been "blended" and "interconnected" rather than separated. Congress is not a judiciary body, but it has the judicial power to impeach and try U.S. civil officers. The President nominates Federal judges, but the Senate must approve them. The President can affect or control legislation, partly through his power as a party head with patronage to dispense, and partly by exercise of the veto. In brief, there are checks and balances within...
...real scandal was that nobody, before Pearl Harbor, had the combined foresight and strength of character to haul Jesse over the White House coals-and Jesse had forehandedly had his penny-pinching notions approved by the President. The U.S. was caught so short that somebody should have been impeached-but no one could put his finger on whom to impeach. Jesse Jones was rubber king by default, not by delegation of powers...