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Sitting below a portrait of his slain wife at his Islamabad home, Zardari hailed the decision as "good news for democracy." "The coalition leaders believe that it has become imperative to move for impeachment," he told reporters. At his side, Sharif glowed with a kind of relish. "This person committed an oppression against Pakistan. That's why the parliament has decided to impeach him," Sharif added. Musharraf first came to power by staging a coup against Sharif...
Those supporters, now reduced to the dwindling ranks of the opposition, have vowed to resist the move to impeach Musharraf. "This is a gimmick," says Mushahid Hussain, a prominent senator and close ally of the president. "If they are going to open up a new front, then they've raised stakes and all bets are off. I don't think they would have control of the consequences of their own decisions. They're getting into something that they have no capacity to deal with...
...Manion battle as critical. ''Those appointed to the federal bench for life,'' he says, ''should be the best the legal profession has to offer. Too many clearly are not.'' While the Senate prepared to consider Manion last week, the House was pondering the arduous prospect of a judicial impeachment. Convicted two years ago of income tax evasion, Nevada Federal District Judge Harry Claiborne began serving a two-year sentence last month at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. The first sitting federal judge to be imprisoned, Claiborne, a Carter appointee, has refused to resign, continues to draw...
...House is not in order.' DENNIS KUCINICH, Ohio Democrat, introducing articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Kucinich failed to impeach Dick Cheney...
...part of Serbia, while Tadic was labeled as traitor who was ready to sacrifice Kosovo for a distant promise of E.U. membership. The Radicals, whose chairman Vojislav Seselj is on trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, even threatened to impeach Tadic immediately after the elections and try him for high treason. They also vowed to root out other pro-European "traitors" from political scene and form a strong bond with Russia, which might have turned Serbia into a Balkan version of Belarus...