impeach
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There have been calls, within his own party, to investigate and impeach the governor, who had been spoken of as a potential presidential candidate in 2028.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
The House of Representatives voted to impeach her for allegedly misusing public funds and making threats against Marcos, his wife and cousin, who at the time was also the speaker of the house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Last week, a House committee that looked into the evidence against the vice-president ruled that there was sufficient grounds to impeach her.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
That practice by Nixon of dangling pardons was in fact one of the grounds on which the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach him.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
Russo told reporters he was going to turn his attention to the effort to impeach President Nixon.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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This includes evidence that impeaches the prosecutor’s case.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022
The House of Representatives impeaches the president by bringing formal charges against the president, and the Senate tries the case in a proceeding overseen by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
Chief Justice John Roberts, who succeeded Rehnquist after his death in 2005, will preside over Trump’s Senate trial if the House impeaches him.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2019
"Once the House impeaches, the House has impeached the president. And then that hearing goes to the Senate," she said on Tuesday, according to MSNBC.
From Fox News ● Sep. 10, 2019
That it impeaches the good faith of His Majesty's Government.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term) by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
Senate for 24 years, noted a similar phenomenon when Republicans impeached President Clinton while she was in office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
President Ulysses S. Grant’s secretary of war, William Belknap, was impeached for taking bribes—an ordinary tawdry case of personal corruption.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2026
Only two Cabinet secretaries have been impeached in US history, and neither was removed by the Senate.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
They swept to victory last June, after the disgraced former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was impeached for a bizarre six-hour attempt to declare martial law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
I called Jesse up one day to tell him the president had been impeached.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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From resisting foreign invasions during the monarchy to championing pro-democracy movements and impeaching scandal-ridden President Park Geun-hye in 2017, vigilant citizens have held politicians accountable and strengthened the nation’s political system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024
Mr. McCarthy has not previously referred in public to impeaching Mr. Biden.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
How would impeaching a Supreme Court justice actually work?
From Slate ● May 8, 2023
For decades after, Congress reconvened only intermittently to take pressing post-election actions, like censuring Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 and impeaching President Bill Clinton in 1998, or to resolve particular legislative debates.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
Supreme Court has long required that the prosecution disclose to the defendant anything that is exculpatory or that may be helpful to the defendant in impeaching a witness.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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