The notion of impeaching a sitting United States President is envisioned in the very first iteration of the United States Constitution in Article II, Section 4doi:10.2139/SSRN.3699020Ediberto RomanMelissa GonzalezDianet TorresSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Supreme Court overturn the "obstruction of justice" impeachment resolution against President Trump? No, that's not true: The U.S. constitution specifies that the House of Representatives has "the sole power of impeachment" and the Senate has the "sole power to try all ...
imagine that Congress passes a statute that says (for example): “the president may not order the FBI director to stop an investigation of the president or any other executive branch official.” If Dershowitz is right, this statute would violate the Constitution and be struck down by a court...
Regardless of the statutory crime, however, charges of obstruction of justice have been a staple of the last two substantial attempts to impeach a president. The first of three articles of impeachment adopted by the House Judiciary Committee against President Nixon accused him of obstructin...
Giuliani told the WSJ that the “we think the obstruction of it is handled by Article 2 of the Constitution,” referencing a president’s jurisdiction to hire and fire members of an administration as he or she pleases.
since they—in contrast to the rather isolating perspective of far-right obstruction by ideational approaches—emphasise that populism cannot be understood in isolation but only in a discursive–political context in light of the mutual constitution of populism and anti-populism (Stavrakakis 2014; Moffit...
Moreover, the Chief Justice does not appear to have a say in the matter. The power to try an impeached President is vested in the Senate and not the Supreme Court. The Senate makes its own rules about how it interprets the Constitution with regard to impeachment powers. But I’m not ...
“Democratic offices” referred to in a statement from the House Ways and Means Committee when it derided IRS’ claims that “it cannot produce emails written only to or from Lerner and outside agencies or groups, such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat ...
Musk accused Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes of suppressing free speech and violating Brazil's constitution.
Her party swept elections in 2015, but she couldn't become president because of a provision added by the military to the 2008 constitution designed to bar her from the country’s highest office. Instead, she became de facto national leader with the title of state counsellor, a position cre...