Word: impeachable
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...drumbeat for impeachment hearings has already begun. "It will be very hard to resist the impetus" for hearings, says House Judiciary chair Henry Hyde. The process starts with a congressional investigation. It takes a majority vote of the House of Representatives to impeach, and if the vote carries, a trial is conducted by the Senate. A two-thirds vote is required to convict, which would cause the President to be removed from office. Andrew Johnson is the only President ever impeached, and the Senate failed to convict him. In the only other close call, Nixon resigned at the height...
...would not sell his mother to have these birds back in the Oval Office for only a day, scheming, brooding, drawing up enemies lists, conniving about "Plumbers"? The most entertaining of the tape excerpts, to me, has Nixon raging about the threat of impeachment to his press secretary Ron Ziegler, when his dog, King Timahoe, suddenly jumps up on him: "Christ, impeach the President on John Dean's word... there's a cancer in the heart of the White House, on the heart of the presidency. [The dog barks.] King! Goddam, get off me! But they can't want, frankly...
Israel's legal system presumes innocence, but in politics there's no such protection. If Netanyahu had become the first Prime Minister ever to be indicted, he would probably have been driven from office, even though the law does not require that he resign. The Knesset could impeach him with 80 votes of the 120 members or could force new elections for parliament and the post of Prime Minister with a simple majority...
...convalescing in Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital for a week now, and his doctors now say he will remain hospitalized at least through the end of this week. In his absence, Communist Deputy Viktor Ilyukhin, backed by ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has spearheaded a movement in the Russian Parliament to impeach Yeltsin due to ill health. It's a somewhat empty gesture, since under complex constitutional rules that Yeltsin rammed through in 1993, the Duma is not likely to impeach, and Yeltsin can dissolve the body at any time. But the vote movement reflects the increasing frustration of a country facing...
...plaintiffs plan to wrap up their case by the end of this week or next, but not before they bring on witnesses who they hope will impeach Simpson's testimony. They may parade six or seven people who claim they saw O.J. hit Nicole. They will introduce into evidence notes taken by domestic-violence expert Lenore Walker, who was brought in by the original defense team and who wrote that Simpson told her he called former girlfriend Paula Barbieri from his Bronco the night of the murders--not from home, as he insisted last week. Barbieri is expected also...