Questions tagged [impeachment]
Questions related to a legislative body formally bringing charges against a high-level government official. This usually starts a process that can end in removal from office.
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Is South Korea's opposition planning to normalize relations with North Korea?
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol surprisingly issued a decree enacting martial law in the country which was quickly reversed by his cabinet. The opposition Democratic Party said it would begin ...
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How can a Kenyan Deputy President challenge his impeachment after it passed the Senate?
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Kenyan senators have voted to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office despite his failure to testify at his impeachment trial after his lawyer said he had been taken to hospital....
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Could Putin be impeached?
At least on paper, the Russian Federation is a constitutional democracy with the legal possibility of impeaching the President. There were three attempts to remove Yeltsin from office and Wikipedia ...
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Differences between impeachment and conviction of US president and New York State governor once they are out of office?
note: not asking specifically about Trump & Cuomo.
A recent US president was impeached twice in their first term by the US House and both times acquitted by the Senate. The second trial from ...
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What is an impeachable offense for the governor of NY?
Under what circumstances can the governor of New York be impeached?
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What is the purpose of the House investigation of what happened at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6th 2021?
What is the overall purpose of the House investigation of the events that occurred at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021?
Is this investigation being conducted to decide whether new Articles ...
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Why allow congress to impeach an official if accused doesn't necessarily have to have committed a crime?
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Impeachment may be conducted by congress for the following reasons outlined in the U.S. Constitution:
Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 of the United States Constitution provides:
The House ...
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Are there legal penalties for lies (etc.) in a US Senate impeachment trial?
Suppose an impeachment of POTUS has progressed to the senate trial. And suppose that one of the representatives of one side or the other is shown to have lied, falsified evidence, covered up evidence, ...
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Why is the Constitutionality of an Impeachment and Trial when out of office not settled?
The US Senate has voted 3 times, once in 1876 and twice in 2021, that impeachment and trial of an official who has left office is acceptable.
Despite this, Mitch McConnell voted to acquit Trump in ...
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What legal procedures apply to the impeachment?
It was just reported by CNN that 3 GOP senators (Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee) met with Trump's defense team today. When asked if meeting with senators (which are jurors) during the trial was ...
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Do senators have to attend an impeachment trial in order to be allowed to vote on the verdict?
If a senator has not attended the trial or was not paying attention while at the trial, can that senator still show up on the day of the vote on the verdict and cast a vote?
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Constitutionality of senate trial of "President" without Chief Justice presiding [closed]
Transcript here.
Let’s start with the text of the Constitution, which in article one, section two gives the House the sole power of impeachment when the President commits high crimes and misdemeanors....
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Have any Senators boycotted an impeachment vote?
This answer to What would happen if Senators boycotted the Impeachment Vote points out that the Constitution does not compel Senators to vote in an impeachment trial:
The Senate shall have the sole ...
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What would happen if Senators boycotted the Impeachment Vote
I know it would take a 2/3rds majority vote in the Senate to convict Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. But what if a substantial number of Senators boycotted the trial, and declined to ...
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Can the Supreme Court declare an impeachment unconstitutional? [duplicate]
Somebody asked:Why is the Senate, and not the Supreme Court, deciding whether the current impeachment is constitutional?
As an Australian lawyer, I was thinking the same way. If a valid impeachment is ...
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Why doesn't the President Pro Tempore preside over presidential impeachment trials?
The Constitution specifies that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides over impeachment trials of the President. SCOTUSblog says that the reason for this exception is
In any impeachment case ...
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Why is it impeachment of a private citizen to try the former president after leaving office? [duplicate]
I have seen many arguing that the senate trial cannot continue because Trump is now a private citizen. One cannot impeach a private citizen.
But the impeachment by the House occurred during Trump's ...
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Would Trump lose his former President benefits if he's convicted in the impeachment trial?
If a president is impeached and removed from power, do they lose all benefits usually afforded to presidents when they leave office? quotes the Former Presidents Act as defining a former President as
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Impeachment articles do not expire, but must a Senate trial restart from the beginning if the trial extends beyond the current Senate?
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According to Is the Senate required to pursue a trial if presented with articles of impeachment?, impeachment articles themselves do not expire as written inside Chapter 27, Part A, Section ...
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Role of the 'Judge' during Impeachment [duplicate]
What exactly does the Judge presiding over impeachment hearings do? As of now it is clear that John Roberts will not be sitting in for the second impeachment, and Rand Paul and many Republicans have ...
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Why isn't the constitutionality of Trump's 2nd impeachment decided by the supreme court?
Just five GOP senators vote Trump impeachment trial is constitutional
As I understand the US supreme court, they rule on the constitutionality of issues. Therefore it seems like the question of ...
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How did US Supreme court Justice John Roberts "let it be known" that he did not wish to preside over the 2nd presidential impeachment?
NPR.org's Sen. Patrick Leahy To Preside Over Trump's Senate Impeachment Trial says:
Chief Justice John Roberts presided over Trump's first impeachment trial, but now that Trump is a former president, ...
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What practical effect would a successful impeachment conviction of Joe Biden for his actions as Vice President have?
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The same day President Joe Biden was inaugurated, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced articles of impeachment against him for his conduct as Vice President.
As Vice President, ...
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Can the Chinese president be impeached?
According to this article:
China has approved the removal of the two-term limit on the
presidency, effectively allowing Xi Jinping to remain in power for
life.
I'd like to know if there is a ...
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Can the US House/Congress impeach/convict a private citizen that hasn't held office?
The current debate right now is whether or not the US Senate can hold an impeachment trial and potentially convict an ex-president who is now technically considered a private citizen. To be clear, the ...
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US secrecy determination as per Article I, Section 5, Clause 3
Question: What does it take exactly to determine a judgement of proceedings and votes by either house to require secrecy?
Why, context, etc.
As per Article I, Section 5, Clause
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Does a vice president retain their tie breaking vote in the Senate during an impeachment trial if it is the vice president being impeached?
If the vice president is the subject of an impeachment, does the vice president have a vote in the Senate trial of which they are the subject?
Note: The constitution only mandates that the chief ...
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Can the Senate put an in-progress impeachment trial on pause?
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Mitch McConnell has released a statement stating that the impeachment trial will not begin until the next regular meeting following the receipt from the house:
The House of Representatives ...
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Has a state official ever been impeached twice?
The Wikipedia article for Donald Trump states that he is
the only federal officeholder to be impeached twice.
What about officeholders in other jurisdictions of the United States? Has any state, ...
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Can the senate now vote to bar Trump from standing again? [duplicate]
It looks the senate will not hold an impeachment trial very soon. But can they vote by simple majority to bar Trump from ever standing for president again?
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Can Impeachment votes be filibustered?
If a few members of the House of Representatives who opposed impeachment were to attempt to filibuster the impeachment, could they or are there any internal house rules that would prevent this?
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Does the Senate need supermajority or just a regular majority to prevent a convicted President from running for office again? [duplicate]
The Constitution allows the Senate to punish an impeached President with prevention from holding an important office in the future, do they need 2/3rds of the Senate to do this or 2/3rds for a ...
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If the senate cannot remove a federal official already out of office, how can they disqualify said person from running for office again? [duplicate]
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House Majority Whip James Clyburn has stated that the House may wait until after Biden's 100 days to send articles of impeachment to the senate as reported by CNN:
"We'll take the ...
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Can the House of Representatives vote to impeach an acting President after the elected president was removed via the 25th Amendment?
If the Vice President in the form of an obviously unjust attempt to remove a fully capable President via the 25th Amendment were to become acting President would they be eligible for impeachment as ...
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Can an impeachment be undone?
If a president is impeached, removed from office, and barred from running again, could a future congress or president reinstate his ability to run for office again?
I'm imagining a case in which both ...
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If a US president is convicted for insurrection, does that also prevent his children from running for president?
In my country, there have been more than a few attempts at a coup d'etat, auto-coup, etc. We have legislation in place to prevent insurrectionists and their immediate family from running for president ...
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Can the US president be thrown out of office via a Constitutional convention?
Say a very corrupt president were able to use threats to make Congress do as they said and committed many impeachable offenses, but Congress wouldn’t get rid of them, could 3/4ths of the state ...
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Would an impeachment process automatically end with the end of a president's term? [duplicate]
Currently, it is being considered to impeach president Trump with less than two weeks of his term remaining. To me, it does not appear to be very plausible that such a process could be completed in ...
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Would Mike Pence become President if Trump was impeached and removed from office?
Let's assume President Trump is successfully impeached and removed from office on Monday/Tuesday (before his term expires and he leaves office on the 20th).
Would Vice President Pence take over and ...
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If a president is impeached and removed from power, do they lose all benefits usually afforded to presidents when they leave office?
It is my understanding that there are a number of benefits bestowed to presidents when they leave office. These include a lucrative pension, $1 million travel budget per year, personal protection etc....
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Can the Supreme Court strike down an impeachment that wasn’t for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ or is Congress the sole judge?
If an impeachment for something clearly not a ‘high crime or misdemeanor’ were to go though for example for increasing tariffs, would the Supreme Court have the power to overturn their judgement?
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Is there any situation where a person who admitted to breaking the law in the interest of the United States can not be convicted legally? [closed]
For example when the bombs were dropped on Japan which killed innocent civilians, but the people in the military responsible for it was not punished seemingly because ending the war was believed to be ...
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Can the US Senate convict an impeachment after the impeached has left office? [duplicate]
It has been widely reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump following the rioting in the Capitol on Wednesday. However, it is ...
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Can a President be impeached after leaving office?
Suppose for the sake of the question that:
hypothetical U.S. President Liam Duke begins to be formally impeached on Jan 19, the day before the next President is sworn in.
President Duke is in fact ...
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What is the minimum amount of time needed for an impeachment?
Last year's impeachment proceedings were a relatively drawn out process, playing out over a month and a half, and it resulted in an impeachment without removal from office. That is similar to the ...
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Is taking medication enough to lose the presidency? [closed]
The following question is inspired by the events of Season 2 of House of Cards. While the original inspiration is a television show, the question is firmly about real-world politics. Apologies if ...
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Couldn't the Senate Democrats have stalled the SCOTUS vote using impeachment?
I was interested to learn more about the procedures for impeachment and while going through the Senate rules, I found it odd that it stated that any articles of impeachment that are sent to the Senate ...
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Can the Pope be impeached?
Generally, an appointment to the papacy is for life, but on several occasions, most recently Benedict XVI in 2013, the Pope has resigned from the post. This means that the Catholic Church recognises ...
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Is it a concern to the US, that leading their leader in handcuffs out of the White House would look weak to other countries? [closed]
I am wondering how for example something like the "Nixonian Deal" (Nixon leaving office "voluntarily" in exchange for being pardoned later) could occur.
What kind of leverage does a President have in ...
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If a president is removed from office after being impeached, when does the vice president take office?
In the United States, if during an impeachment trial the Senate votes to convict the president, when does the vice president take office as the new president? Is is immediately after a vote is taken, ...
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