Search results for "Impeachment" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • and passed the resolution for the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868. ... * Smith, Gene. High crimes and misdemeanors: the impeachment and trial ...
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  • have been what saved Andrew Johnson from impeachment; as President pro tempore ... ==Impeachment of Johnson== [[Image:Benjamin f wade drawing.png|thumb ...
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  • , and then aggressively pursued the impeachment of the National Union ... the Reconstruction of the South and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson ...
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  • ===Impeachment=== In February 1868, Johnson notified Congress that ... On March 5, 1868, a court of impeachment was constituted in the Senate ...
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  • wars in the region. Hastings endured his impeachment trial with dignity, nearly ... it was argued (unsuccessfully) at his impeachment trial that he participated ...
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  • complied. With certainty of an impeachment in the House of Representatives ... formal investigations into the possible impeachment of the President. The ...
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  • the Tenure of Office Act, initiated impeachment proceedings against him ... #039;s Role in the Events Leading to Impeachment." American Historical ...
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  • A year later when Tyler vetoed a tariff bill, the first impeachment ... charging him with offenses justifying impeachment for vetoing a protective ...
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  • it dates from 1097. Charles I's impeachment took place in this Hall.]] ... Parliament was also responsible for the impeachment and subsequent execution ...
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  • Republicans pushed for Taney's impeachment. Taney was a controversial ... in Congress even considered initiating impeachment charges against Taney. ...
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  • ===The Impeachment of Warren Hastings=== Sheridan found his great opportunity in the impeachment of Warren ...
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  • came after advisement of imminent impeachment related to the Watergate ... During deliberations over Nixon's impeachment, his unorthodox use of ...
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  • which also has the sole power of impeachment, while the Senate has ... the exclusive power of removal, allowing impeachment and removal of the President. ...
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  • == Lewinsky scandal investigation and impeachment trial== ... Johnson). The House held no serious impeachment hearings before the 1998 ...
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  • Under Dana's control, the Sun opposed the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. It supported Grant for the presidency in 1868, but it ...
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  • House to conduct the unsuccessful trial of impeachment, before the Senate, of President Johnson, opening the case and taking the most prominent part in it. ...
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  • ===Blocking of impeachment proceedings against Bush=== believed that Democrats should pursue impeachment proceedings against the ...
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  • the President, or deliberations during impeachment trials. A Senator may ... presides over the trial. During an impeachment trial, senators are constitutionally ...
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  • during Donald Trump's first impeachment trial in early 2020. ... Greene of Georgia filed articles of impeachment against Biden that cited ...
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  • === Impeachment === remain in session and proceed with the impeachment. Long took his case to ...
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  • and in such role, presided over the impeachment trial of Samuel Chase. ... judicial manner in presiding over the impeachment trial of Justice Samuel ...
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  • the Tories who had engineered his impeachment. ==Stanhope/Sunderland ... who had brought about Walpole's impeachment in 1712 were now themselves ...
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  • reform, took a leading part in the judges' impeachment trials. By analyzing the bank accounts of certain members of the ring, he obtained legal ...
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  • the policy. To save Lord Danby from the impeachment trial in the House of ... that dissolution did not interrupt impeachment proceedings. When the ...
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  • Hatch voted for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1999 ... * Impeachment Trial Committee on the Articles against Judge G. Thomas ...
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  • be removed only by resignation, or by impeachment and subsequent conviction. ... Samuel Chase, who was acquitted. This impeachment was one piece of the power ...
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  • remove Yeltsin from presidency through impeachment, March 26, 1993. Yeltsin ... On May 15, 1999, Yeltsin survived another impeachment attempt, this ...
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  • initiating all revenue bills, the impeachment of federal officers, and ... revenue bills, to file articles of impeachment against officials, and ...
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  • ===The failed impeachment attempt=== signed a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Marcos for ...
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  • majority is necessary to convict. The power of impeachment, however, has fallen into disuse; the House of Commons exercises its checks on the Government ...
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  • against the United States, except in cases of impeachment. The Supreme Court has interpreted this language to include the power to grant pardons ...
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  • House of Representatives in 1830 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against James H. Peck, judge of the United States District Court for the District ...
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  • him not to resign and instead fight all the impeachment charges that had been levelled against him. However, on August 8, 1974, President Nixon decided ...
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  • to resign in 1974 in order to avoid impeachment. At the time, Felt was ... brought with it the prospect of certain impeachment for Nixon; he resigned ...
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  • and Choi Ik-hyun, court scholar, wrote a formal impeachment of Daewongun to the Royal Council of Administration. The document argued that Gojong ...
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  • the Bengal treasury after Plassey, at his impeachment trial in 1773 * "Heaven-born general"--British Prime Minister William Pitt "The ...
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  • In a 1998 press interview, Steinem weighed in on the Clinton impeachment hearings when asked whether President Bill Clinton should be impeached ...
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  • George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998), was United States politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat ...
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  • Impeachment cases are very rare (the last being in 1927, when Prime ... Court of the Realm. In the new system, impeachment cases will be heard by ...
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  • Hastings, the consequence of which was the impeachment trial of Hastings. The trial, of which Burke was the leading promoter, lasted from 1787 until Hastings ...
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  • #039;s reputation. Bacon, commenting on his impeachment as Chancellor in which he claims to have been forced to plead guilty to bribery charges in order ...
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  • her plan. Choi Ik-hyeon, who had helped with the impeachment of Daewon-gun, sided with the isolationists. He contended that the Japanese had become just ...
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  • who was duly removed from office. Although the impeachment was the first in centuries, James did not oppose it, believing that sacrificing Bacon could ...
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  • Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It is located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, 150 miles (240 kilometers ...
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  • Sioux Tribal Council unsuccessfully filed impeachment proceedings against him in February 1973. Anticipating problems, the U.S. Department of Justice ...
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  • Article Two also provides for the impeachment and removal from office of civil officers (the President, Vice President, judges, and others). ...
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  • but was forced to resign after mishandling the impeachment of southerner Bill Clinton in 1998. Tom DeLay was the most powerful Republican leader in Congress ...
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  • crisis. In the process, both the procedure of impeachment and the office of the Speaker were created. Even though the political gains were of only temporary ...
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  • with him, and anonymous others, to induce the impeachment of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, whom Dick believed to be the current Emperor of Rome ...
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  • on March 27, 1993. After President Zafy's impeachment by the National Assembly in 1996 and the short quasi-presidency of Norbert Ratsirahonana, the ...
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  • the legislature sends passed resolutions of impeachment to the judiciary for a final decision. However, the President, who presently serves a single ...
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  • National Congress voted for Collor's impeachment after a sequence of scandals were uncovered by the media. The vice president, Itamar Franco, assumed ...
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  • There is also a High Court of Impeachment for criminal charges (for an offense in office) against the President of the Republic, the justices ...
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  • issued by the Sovereign could not impede an impeachment. ==Death== In 1702, William died of pneumonia, a complication from a broken collarbone ...
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  • failed—and Parliament opened impeachment proceedings against Buckingham. Charles responded by dissolving Parliament. This move, while saving ...
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  • powers to the prime minister and allowed for impeachment of the king by a two-thirds majority of the national assembly. In 1999, the king lifted a ban ...
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  • select various government officials, conduct an impeachment trial of the president, and accept or reject the bills passed by the House of Representatives ...
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  • protest against Estrada, following his aborted impeachment trial at the Senate of the Philippines. Estrada was a former movie actor who was popular with ...
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  • contains two independent courts: a Court of Impeachment and the Oklahoma Court on the Judiciary. There are two courts of last resort: the state Supreme ...
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  • in the legislature, and ultimately, to his own impeachment and removal from office. Wade, 1987, 85. Despite this power, there was resistance to ...
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  • #039;s case, was compelled to halt the impeachment proceedings – Marlborough's successor, the Duke of Ormonde, had himself already been ...
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  • calling for his resignation and threatening impeachment. The Sandinistas alleged that their support for Bolaños was lost when US Secretary of ...
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  • power of decree and threatened with impeachment, Yeltsin "dissolved" the parliament on September 21, in contravention of the existing ...
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  • by Nixon. Nixon, threatened with impeachment because of Watergate, had resigned his office. Gerald R. Ford, Nixon's vice-president stepped ...
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  • opened the way for a national referendum on his impeachment. Post-Cold War Romania developed closer ties with Western Europe, eventually joining ...
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  • In the February 1999 Senate trial following the impeachment of Bill Clinton, McCain voted to convict the president on both the perjury and obstruction ...
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  • The United States of America—also referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S., America, America may refer to the nation of the United ...
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