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President Reagan will be heaving a sigh of relief in Washington today because Brown students voted last night not to impeach him by a narrow 51 percent...
Bonifaz, however, said that he hoped the results at Brown would have farther-reaching effects than the confines of the Providence, R.I. campus. The senior added that the substantial minority of 49 percent who voted to impeach the president showed a large support for this action...
...drafting the Constitution, the Founding Fathers wrote a complex impeachment procedure for the removal of federal officials guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors." The House was given the power to impeach and the Senate the power to try these cases. So much for the theory. In practice, Congress has never liked all the folderol, hoping the accused would be dealt with in some other way. Up to this year, the House has impeached only 13 men, not including Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 before his impeachment was acted on by the full House. Not since 1936, when the Senate...
After the college conference a group of graduating seniors attempted to impeach Kashani, on the grounds that he had broken IRC rules by inviting Smith, and because of accounting irregularities from the year before, when Kashani was Secretary-General. The motion was tabled by a one-vote margin. Kashani believes that "the reason it was only graduating seniors [who voted against Kashani] was because anyone on the board who had supported this would have been driven out of office at the next election...
Judge Samuels' ruling appeared to follow Illinois legal precedent in cases where witnesses recant their testimony after a conviction. Such retractions are generally viewed with suspicion, and the convictions stand. Said Thomas Royce, a prominent Chicago criminal-defense lawyer: "Recanting testimony is not (in itself) sufficient to impeach a jury's verdict. It basically falls on deaf ears...