Word: trialing
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...Illinois lawmakers debate the likely impeachment of Gov. Rod Blagojevich - who has repeatedly ignored calls for his resignation - the country has another impeachment on its mind: ten years ago Dec. 19, President Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for obstruction of justice in a trial related to his Oval Office dalliances with Monica Lewinsky...
Clinton was impeached by congress, but never actually removed from office. This is because impeachment is a two-step process and although it is taken very seriously - only seventeen federal officials have ever been impeached - it's really nothing more than a formal decision to commence a trial, in which a conviction would automatically remove the official from office. (See pictures of Presidential First Dogs...
...Congressman who was convicted of having sex with an underage volunteer. Another was Scott Fawell, former governor George Ryan's chief of staff and political headhunter, who was sent to federal prison (and has since been released) after being convicted of racketeering and other federal charges. At the corruption trial of Ryan, Blagojevich's predecessor, Genson represented Ryan's co-defendant, Lawrence Warner, who is in a Colorado federal penitentiary with a projected release date of October 2009. (Ryan, who was also convicted, is seeking a pardon from President Bush.) More recently, Genson advocated unsuccessfully for Conrad Black, the disgraced...
...will soon be sent home and put into a program aimed at rehabilitating jihadist militants, and the U.S. will have to find its own way to resolve the fate of those detainees it wants to keep under lock and key, possibly bringing them to the U.S. mainland to face trial. But what to do with the 60 detainees deemed harmless yet vulnerable to persecution in their home countries has been one of the knottiest problems in closing down Guantánamo. (See pictures from inside Guantánamo...
Still, it's doubtful that al-Zaidi will be released without trial, despite the intense public pressure, merely because such public affronts to leaders are extremely rare in the Middle East and unlikely to go unpunished. Justice must not only be done but also be seen to be done, so he will probably be tried and then either released with a fine or a muted sentence, according to several parliamentarians. Few doubt that he will be convicted. "It's about what happens after the conviction," says Othman. "Al-Maliki could do something about it, then pardon him or release...