Extractions: Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Wahid is running out of time, and options JAKARTA, Indonesia Indonesian prosecutors have cleared President Abdurrahman Wahid of wrongdoing, but moves to oust him are expected to persist. Attornery-General Marzuki Darusman cleared Wahid of any involvement in two graft scandals late Monday. Wahid's involvement in the corruption cases triggered moves to impeach him. But Wahid's clearance is unlikely to derail pressure to oust him because the criticism has moved to a more general attack on his erratic leadership. Parliament has so far issued two motions of censure against the president one for his alleged involvement in two high-profile corruption cases and another for failing to meet key policy targets set by parliament. CNN.com Asia More news from our
The Texas Constitution - Art 15 - IMPEACHMENT Article 15 impeachment. Sec. 1 - POWER OF impeachment Sec. 2 - TRIAL OF impeachment OF CERTAIN OFFICERS BY SENATE http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/txconst/articles/cn001500.html
AlterNet: The Case For Impeachment The Case for impeachment. By John Dean, FindLaw.com. intelligence data, if proven, could be a high crime under the Constitution s impeachment clause. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16142
Extractions: WEB SERVICES: WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, December 12) The House Judiciary Committee Saturday approved an abbreviated fourth article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton. With Republicans calling the allegation in Article IV "an assault on the Congress," the GOP-controlled committee voted to charge Clinton with making false statements in his answers to 81 questions the committee posed to him last month. The committee voted, 21-16, along strict party lines. Also in this story: Before voting on the fourth article of impeachment, the committee agreed to delete charges the president made false and misleading statements to the people of the United States and his staff and frivolously asserted executive privilege. Gregory Craig The House of Representatives must now vote on whether to impeach the president on the committee's four articles and send him to trial in the Senate. The House floor vote is tentatively set for December 17.
Impeachment: The Process www.nytimes.com/library/politics/clintonlewinskyi Washington University Law Library Researching the Clinton impeachmentimpeachment An introductory article by Grolier Encyclopedia. A very basic introduction to the concept of impeachment. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/impeachment/
Extractions: News Summaries Daily News Quiz Word of the Day ... Job Opportunities The Constitution spells out in a few brief clauses the roles of the House and the Senate in impeaching officials and removing them from office. Although House and Senate rules control the actions of each chamber, there is no uniform practice for carrying out impeachments, partly because the process occurs so infrequently and under varied circumstances. Photo Credits Go to: Impeachment: The History.... Censure: The History.... The Impeachment Process: 1998 STEP BY STEP
ABC7Chicago.com Rep. Hyde Reflects On 30 Years Of Office Hyde led impeachment of Pres. Clinton The veteran republican is also admitting for the first time that the impeachment of Clinton may have been in part http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/042105_ns_hyde.html
Give Impeachment A Chance In other words, Nixon, if he hadn t resigned to avoid impeachment, Articles of impeachment, drafted by Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark http://www.oilempire.us/impeach.html
Extractions: Catherine Austin Fitts , former assistant secretary of housing, Bush the First administration "George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America’s reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point for intentionally deceiving Congress and the American people in order to start a war of aggression against a country that posed no threat to the US. America can redeem itself only by holding Bush accountable ."
IMPEACHMENT PRIMER PAST AND PRESENT impeachment Past and Present gives a quick historical overview of impeachment process of Presidents of the United States under the United States http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8282/aimpeach.html
Extractions: ARTICLE I SECTION 3 "The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law." President Andrew Johnson Only one other President Andrew Johnson was in fact tried by the Senate on Articles of Impeachment brought by the House of Representatives.
Extractions: Web posted at: 11:40 a.m. EST (1640 GMT) NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN) Opinions on the impeachment of President Clinton vary as much among newspapers as they do between Democrats and Republicans. Correspondent Gary Tuchman takes a look at two such papers including the oldest continuously published one in the United States that started off as Clinton supporters, but diverged as the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal progressed.
How Arroyo Is Dodging Impeachment Amid allegations of election rigging, the Philippines president wants to focus on economic matters. Will the distraction work? http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2005/nf20050727_4155_db087.htm
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Extractions: Help WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, March 25) Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee charged Tuesday their Republican counterparts are plotting to use a review of the Justice Department to lay the groundwork for an impeachment inquiry against President Bill Clinton. "I must now come to the House to report that the Republican leadership is now planning to surreptitiously commence ... an impeachment investigation without any notice to the Congress, to the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee or to the American people, without a vote from the House of Representatives," Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said on the House floor.
Extractions: Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Megawati smiles after arriving at the impeachment session of Wahid JAKARTA, Indonesia Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri looks set to take over as Indonesia's new leader amid a showdown between legislators and the struggling president. Lawmakers were holding an impeachment hearing Monday. But even if the country's top legislative assembly sacks him, President Abdurrahman Wahid refuses to step aside. "Yes, he'll stay," presidential spokesman Yahya Staquf told reporters when asked whether Wahid would go. Wahid faced a speedy impeachment hearing after he attempted to stave off the process with a declaration of a state of emergency, made at 1 a.m. Monday (2 p.m. Sunday EDT). AUDIO CNN's Maria Ressa reports on the latest from Jakarta (July 23) AIFF or WAV sound VIDEO Indonesia's assembly votes overwhelmingly to impeach President Wahid. CNN's Maria Ressa reports (July 21)
Extractions: Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW There have been hopes that Wahid and Megawati can mend their relationship, which has been increasingly cool By staff and wire reports JAKARTA, Indonesia Indonesia's biggest political party has backed away from efforts to bring forward an impeachment hearing against embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid, local media reported. Earlier, some legislators in the Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P) of Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri had said the impoverished country was too volatile to wait until the August 1 impeachment session, the date originally planned. However, after a meeting on Tuesday, the party decided there was no firm constitutional basis for speeding up the hearing, The Jakarta Post reported. Meanwhile, Defense Minister Mahfud MD one of Wahid's senior ministers tasked to lobby major opposition parties to prevent the impeachment process told reporters on Wednesday that the lobbying team has finished its work. ALSO Australia prepares for Wahid's visit "The response is generally positive," he said, as quoted by detikcom news portal, without giving any more details.
