Member of the High Court of Impeachment ( valtakunnanoikeus ), 1994 2000

In the United States, in the federal courts, judges might be removed only by the impeachment process, in which charges were brought against the judge in the House of Representatives, and the case was tried in the Senate.

It's lucky for the city that next Tuesday is Election Day as the citizens will thus be saved the expense of impeaching the mayor and the sheriff .

For the sake of argument, even if Musharraf faces impeachment and by some stroke of luck is saved from being thrown out of office, his future will be bleak. In March 2009, the current ruling coalition will gain more seats in the Senate, and the government would almost certainly try to impeach him again.

This principle may not apply to the decisions of the highest court and those of the legislature in impeachment or similar proceedings.

12. During this period, the minister responsible for media, the Minister of the Interior, was forced to resign by an impeachment vote in the Majlis.

In 2001 the MPR decided to impeach the male president and appointed her, the then Vice President, to act as the President of the Republic until the end of the term in 2004.

According to the source, President Clinton and Senator Bob Dole had called for the resignation and impeachment of Judge Baer as a result of his ruling in a drugs related case.

This latest protest comes just days after protesters took to the streets en masse to support suspended President Dilma Rousseff as the country's senate voted for her impeachment.

By that logic, Mr. Trump would win re election in 2020 unless, as many liberal viewers are probably hoping, impeachment and scandal end his presidency prematurely.

Pelosi demurred when asked if she would try to impeach Kavanaugh if he is confirmed, and if Democrats gain the majority in the House of Representatives.

Unfortunately, given Bush s repeated assertions in defiance of America s constitutional tradition of checks and balances that his office endows him with unilateral powers to violate rights, he appears to be untroubled by that prospect.

Musharraf must assess what will be his legacy. Rather than trying to face down impeachment and prolonging the crisis, he should recognize that Pakistan cannot afford more instability, and that giving up honorably will bring him some respect.

ISLAMABAD Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan stands virtually alone today while facing the most serious challenge to his presidency possible impeachment by the new democratically elected government.

Conservative disenchantment with Ahmadinejad is apparent in the current Majlis, which is predominantly conservative. The Majlis has rejected the government s economic bills, and has repeatedly impeached or challenged Ahmadinejad s cabinet ministers.

Nevertheless, electronic eavesdropping without court authorization, of the sort Bush ordered starting in 2002, played a particularly important part in Nixon s downfall. One of the three counts against Nixon in the vote to impeach Nixon by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee was based on such eavesdropping.

But true reform can be achieved only in a spirit of reconciliation, and the military regime's crude impeachment of deposed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (Thaksin's sister) in January on trumped up charges that seemed flimsy even to many of her diehard opponents has made that impossible. The law, once again, has been used for nakedly political ends.

Likewise, Abulhassan Banisadr, the Islamic Republic s first president, fell out with Khomeini over the division of authority. He was impeached in 1981, after only a year in power, and fled to France, where he continues to reside.

The mood in the US today is far from the point that it reached in 1973 and 1974, when the drive to impeach Nixon and convict him in the US Senate forced him to resign. But, while it seems safe to predict that Bush will serve out the rest of his term, it also appears certain that history will look upon him as a president who sought to undermine civil liberties.

Like most recent American presidents, Obama campaigned on a promise to work with his political opponents for the greater good of the country. Bill Clinton said much the same thing before he was elected, and then spent his first term in a knockdown fight with Newt Gingrich s Republican majority in Congress, and his second term fighting off impeachment.

At the same time, the junta s agenda entails measures to control the direction of Thai politics in particular, by marginalizing opponents, especially politicians tied to the influential Shinawatra family. Indeed, the second major factor shaping the post coup interregnum was the impeachment of Yingluck Shinawatra, the sister of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed by the military in 2006 and remains abroad in self imposed exile.

Due to some slip ups, he managed to escape dressed as a woman and ran from London back to Nigeria where, according to our constitution, those in office as governors, president as in many countries have immunity and cannot be prosecuted. But what happened people were so outraged by this behavior that it was possible for his state legislature to impeach him and get him out of office.