Throughout the proceedings, Schiff argued for Trump's removal from office.
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He cannot immunize anyone from impeachment or removal from office.
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Anything less than resignation or removal from office is unacceptable.
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His actions warrant his impeachment and demand his removal from office.
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Impeachment by the House doesn&apost mean automatic removal from office.
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Individually, these sins may not seem to deserve removal from office.
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The number of Americans supporting your removal from office is climbing fast.
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A petition calling for his removal from office posted on the Change.
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But he has stopped short of calling for Assad's removal from office.
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"49% said "I think that merits investigation and possibly removal from office.
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Because the punishment for impeachment can extend beyond simple removal from office.
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The question for you now is, does it warrant removal from office?
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However, she stopped short of calling for the president's removal from office.
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Just 6 percent support the inquiry, but not Trump's removal from office.
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But Alexander said such "inappropriate" conduct does not warrant Trump's removal from office.
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If so, his potential removal from office would be decided in the Senate.
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Among possible outcomes at such a hearing would be his removal from office.
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However, Kasich said he isn't ready to call for Trump's removal from office.
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Mental health professionals have signed a petition calling for his removal from office.
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And therefore his removal from office now has to be on the table.
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They've tolerated his worst behavior, much of it worthy of removal from office.
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Essentially, the managers will argue in favor of Mr. Trump's removal from office.
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Facing impeachment and possible criminal charges after removal from office, Nixon chose resignation.
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Mitt Romney -- the lone GOP senator to vote for Trump's removal from office.
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And public opinion continues to move in favor of his removal from office.
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But respect for the managers isn't enough for the president's removal from office.
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This is not as strong a punishment as removal from office, of course.
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True, it may still help keep Republicans in line, preventing Trump's removal from office.
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But when does wheeling and dealing become worthy of prosecution or removal from office?
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Police also cited "unlawful incitement to the removal, from office, of the legitimate government".
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The one thing that's absolutely clear is that it's grounds for removal from office.
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Impeachment is often interpreted as meaning removal from office, but that is not accurate.
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If proven, it is grounds for impeachment and then conviction and removal from office.
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But because nothing bureaucratic is ever simple, impeachment doesn't actually mean removal from office.
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Rubio cited concerns that half the country would never accept Trump's removal from office.
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But it would not be issuing the "death penalty" of removal from office, yet.
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And, just a reminder: Impeachment is not the same thing as removal from office.
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It's worth acknowledging that most campaign finance violations do not warrant removal from office.
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In the president and vice president's cases, a conviction results in automatic removal from office.
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Tekebayev was the main author of a new constitution adopted after Bakiyev's removal from office.
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Impeachment: Steyer's "Need to Impeach" campaign has long advocated for President Trump's removal from office.
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What the Constitution demands is the impeachment and removal from office of this lawless president.
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Democrats believe that they can make a case for Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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Her removal from office followed months of public outcry over a wave of corruption allegations.
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A recent FOX poll shows 51 percent of Americans support impeachment and removal from office.
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An even higher number, 54 percent, supports his impeachment but not his removal from office.
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Gallup reported on Wednesday that 52 percent of Americans now support his removal from office.
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Suddenly, impeachment (though not removal from office) has gone from highly unlikely to highly likely.
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He blasted an evangelical magazine, Christianity Today, after it called for his removal from office.
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The report stopped short of explicitly calling for the president's impeachment and removal from office.
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It wasn't until just before Nixon's resignation that a majority favored his removal from office.
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It's no more likely to lead to Trump's removal from office than any other approach.
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Evangelical leaders push back at Chrstianity Today, magazine that called for Trump's removal from office.
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One interesting note ... there's no double jeopardy that attaches to impeachment and removal from office.
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And it threatens officials who flout the law with removal from office and misdemeanor charges.
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If convicted, Hubbard could see prison time and removal from office, local news outlets reported.
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Current CNN polls show that 50% of Americans now support his impeachment and removal from office.
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If those lawmakers happen to be in the Senate, he can also avoid removal from office.
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The Fox News poll found 51 percent of respondents supported Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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But they simply don't believe that breaking the law should be punished with removal from office.
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But they concluded it didn't matter — that conduct, if inappropriate, simply didn't warrant removal from office.
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The poll released Wednesday found 51 percent of respondents supported Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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The challenge was figuring out what would trigger the most radical remedy of removal from office.
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Finally, he cannot be impeached because removal from office would then illegitimately overturn a presidential election.
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If found guilty, Gentry faces anything from a formal admonishment to removal from office, Ryan said.
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Arguments would be heard from each side's legal team for and against Trump's removal from office.
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A message calling for Trump's removal from office was projected onto City Hall in Los Angeles.
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The Broward County Sheriff's deputies union also broke with Israel and pushed for his removal from office.
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Other polls released later on Tuesday afternoon found less support for Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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Impeachment and removal from office therefore would be the most effective -- and, really, only -- available legal remedy.
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A two-thirds vote of the Senate is required for conviction, which results in removal from office.
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In the Senate, there were enough Republicans who didn't believe the charges warranted Clinton's removal from office.
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The Framers thought it would allow removal from office for executive abuses as well as for crimes.
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The House impeached Clinton in 1998, but the Senate acquitted the President, preventing his removal from office.
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The Constitution specifies two specific crimes — treason and bribery — that could merit impeachment and removal from office.
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But that did not warrant the president's removal from office for the first time in American history.
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A few days before Christmas, Christianity Today published a searing editorial arguing for Trump's removal from office.
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Protesters in favor of his removal from office took to the streets by the thousands on Tuesday.
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Ultimately, there's a whole ocean between impeachment and removal from office, especially since Republicans control the Senate.
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Harris and her Senate colleagues aren't the only elected Democrats who are seeking Miller's removal from office.
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It should hardly be surprising that 55 percent of Americans support Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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In Trump&aposs case, both his removal from office and such a measure by the Senate are highly unlikely because the chamber is controlled by the Republican Party, whose members have largely stood by the president even as public support for his impeachment and removal from office mounts.
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She has frequently and loudly insisted on his removal from office – based on what, it is not clear.
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The things he said during this recording directly led to his impeachment, though not his removal from office.
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That's because there were Republican senators who ultimately opposed Clinton's removal from office after the House impeached him.
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The divisive president's removal from office is not the only thing gamblers can bet on at Paddy Power.
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If that happened, it could constitute obstruction of justice and fuel efforts to force his removal from office.
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These powers are derived from its authority to legislate and its responsibility for impeachment and removal from office.
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The preferred route has been impeachment first, leaving open the possibility of criminal charges after removal from office.
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His removal from office had been looming since the Social Democrats and the IRL party quit the government.
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Clinton's voters said they supported impeachment and removal from office, compared with 93 percent of Republicans who opposed.
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Everyone knows that two-thirds of the Senate must vote to convict to result in removal from office.
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So, if Trump is guilty of what he is charged with, does that warrant his removal from office?
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The Framers wisely made removal from office hard to do, which is why impeachment is so very rare.
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While his removal from office is unlikely, his crimes against the country, and the Constitution, warrant that outcome.
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Removal from office also triggers fresh elections in most countries, rather than a transition to the vice president.
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Then came the stunner: Mitt Romney broke with his fellow Republicans and voted for Trump's removal from office.
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If he succeeds, Republican senators will find it easier to vote against his conviction and removal from office.
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Their mission, presenting the case for the president's removal from office during his pending trial in the Senate.
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It would be easier to convince some Republicans to support this than to support Trump's removal from office.
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Senators for and against Trump's removal from office will now have three days to lay out their arguments.
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Park's removal from office cleared the way for criminal proceedings, as South Korean presidents face immunity from prosecution.
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They also detailed the constitutional and legal precedent that they said supports Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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Donald Trump apparently believes that his removal from office could hurt America as badly as the Civil War.
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Censuring would formally condemn Trump's actions, without actually sending him to a Senate trial for removal from office.
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The next step toward removal from office after the House vote would be a trial in the Senate.
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How it works: Below is a graphic that explains the typical procedures for impeachment and removal from office.
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Other punishments included 500,000 yuan fines, temporary suspension from banking work, and removal from office, the CBRC statement said.
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New polling indicates a plurality of Americans not only support President Donald Trump's impeachment but his removal from office.
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Public opinion is turning against him, with growing national support for impeachment as well as Trump's removal from office.
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Her removal from office was carried out within the rules set by Congress and the Supreme Court, Temer said.
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According to polls, two-thirds of Americans opposed Clinton's removal from office when House Republicans launched their impeachment inquiry.
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Here are four ways Trump's removal from office could dramatically reorder the balance of power in political life. 1.
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Sharif was sentenced to 10 years in prison this year following his removal from office by the Supreme Court.
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The government, led by the left-wing Workers Party, is unpopular, and Ms. Rousseff's removal from office looks imminent.
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More recently, senators facing possible or probable expulsion have decided to resign ahead of a formal removal from office.
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In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 49% of respondents back Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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The Senate is due to vote this week whether to put her on trial for her removal from office.
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Penalties may include removal from office, a demotion or temporary suspension, or a civil penalty no higher than $1,000.
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In October 22020, Steyer launched Need to Impeach, a political group dedicated to pushing for Trump's removal from office.
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Now, no member of Congress can reasonably argue that there are no grounds for impeachment and removal from office.
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The political impact of a conviction and any resignation or removal from office depends on when that would happen.
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Clinton himself was impeached in 1998 by the House, but the Senate acquitted him, preventing his removal from office.
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House impeachment managers will make their final opening arguments for President Donald Trump&aposs removal from office on Friday.
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The burden of proof is to demonstrate that his actions were so egregious as to merit removal from office.
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Chuck Eddy, a Republican candidate for Congress, was also in attendance, showing bipartisan support for Trump's removal from office.
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The best way to push for his removal from office is not to impeach him, at least not yet.
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The specter of President Nixon's resignation under threat of removal from office has hung over Trump for some time.
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Park's removal from office has sparked a snap presidential election, which is expected to take place as soon as May.
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As a practical matter, it is exceedingly unlikely that impeachment, even if pursued, will result in Barr's removal from office.
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Taylor's testimony appears to have raised the volume of the conversation about whether Trump's actions warrant his removal from office.
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Her removal from office happened after she said she would open an investigation into fraud allegations surrounding last Sunday's election.
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Park's removal from office has sparked a snap presidential election, which is expected to take place as soon as May.
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At last week's CAP-sponsored Ideas Conference, only Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California explicitly called for Trump's removal from office.
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Indeed, the country is sharply divided along partisan lines over whether President Trump should face impeachment and removal from office.
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There have been two presidential impeachment trials over the last 230 years, and neither ended in his removal from office.
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Lesson 85033: The president also must be "unfit" — As Clinton's case demonstrates, removal from office requires more than a crime.
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Steyer professes to understand the difference between political opposition to a President and support for a President's removal from office.
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That was a day after thousands of South Koreans took to the streets to call for her removal from office.
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Even if it did, conviction on impeachment charges and removal from office requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate.
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The facts of the case and how well Trump's legal team argues them likely won't change his removal from office.
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Indeed. But it's in line with — and an extrapolation of — a favorite argument against Trump's conviction and removal from office.
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Mr. Schiff delivered the final argument of the day, pushing more explicitly than ever for Mr. Trump's removal from office.
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The decision leads to demonstrations, as Park's supporters protest her removal from office while opposition groups cheer the court's opinion.
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Almost half — 49 percent — said lawmakers in the lower chamber should impeach Trump and call for his removal from office.
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On Thursday, the impeachment managers began laying the constitutional groundwork they said supports Trump&aposs impeachment and removal from office.
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Need to Impeach immediately kicked off a $1 million national ad buy that will call for Trump's removal from office.
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The move brings a sitting president to the brink of removal from office for the fourth time in American history.
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However, pending further testimony or should there be any instance of further wrongdoing, the appropriate remedy is removal from office.
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While impeachment is believed to be likely, removal from office is a higher hurdle as the Senate is majority Republican.
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Democrats say that after nearly three years of Donald Trump's presidency they are serious about considering his removal from office.
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If this pattern were merely petty corruption, without damage to the national interest, it might not warrant removal from office.
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The former Republican presidential candidate and chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard stopped short of calling for Mr. Trump's removal from office.
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With her removal from office, Park also loses the immunity that the executive enjoys, and could also be indicted for corruption.
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Your former Trump organization vice president, Barbara Res, says she thinks you might resign rather than face possible removal from office.
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Meanwhile, about 44% of respondents disagreed with Trump's acquittal on some level and said they supported the president's removal from office.
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Romney said on the Senate floor that his faith guided him toward his decision to vote for Trump's removal from office.
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The allegations prompted his impeachment by Illinois' House of Representatives and his removal from office by the state Senate in 2009.
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Now he will also be protected by a new Dershowitz-inspired, no-removal-from-office policy in the Senate, Schiff argued.
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The adult magazine mogul is offering $10 million "for information leading to the impeachment and removal from office" of the president.
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The Founders put plenty of things in the Constitution to give people the illusion of control, but actual removal from office?
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Many of her supporters have promised to take to the streets in an effort to stave off her removal from office.
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Ultimate removal from office is an awfully high bar, and it is hard for me to imagine the Senate clearing it.
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Green, a Democrat, never supported Trump, although he also never imagined that he would be advocating his forced removal from office.
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Two-thirds of the Senate, or 67 senators, need to vote in favor of conviction to trigger Trump's removal from office.
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This isn't the first time Purpura has put these "facts" out to prove Trump's impeachment and removal from office is unwarranted.
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It marks the first real chance for his lawyers to demonstrate to senators that his conduct doesn't warrant removal from office.
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The claim that the Founders would have wanted a direct election to decide the issue of removal from office is ludicrous.
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The outcome seems most likely to be the president's acquittal and continuation in office — not a conviction and removal from office.
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Trump's rally also comes after an evangelical magazine, Christianity Today, published a scathing editorial calling for the president's removal from office.
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In the survey, 49 percent said lawmakers in the lower chamber should impeach Trump and call for his removal from office.
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The impeachment — and removal from office — of President Donald Trump gained an unlikely supporter Thursday: the country's top evangelical Christian magazine.
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Market reaction has been relatively muted so far, as investors widely expect the Senate to vote against Trump's removal from office.
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The proposed censure legislation urges Koskinen's removal from office and would require him to forfeit his pension and other federal benefits.
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Temer has called a corruption charge filed against him by Brazil's top prosecutor a "fiction" as he faces possible removal from office.
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Some have argued recent leaks of classified information, assumedly emanating from inside the intelligence community, resulted in his swift removal from office.
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They have said they believe the accusations against him to be true but don't find them to warrant his removal from office.
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By the first week of August 260, Gallup reported that 270% said Nixon's actions were serious enough to warrant removal from office.
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More than 10,000 people signed a petition calling for her removal from office created by Mississippi Matters, a coalition of progressive groups.
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And if so, whether those actions meet the standard for "high crimes and misdemeanors" deserving of impeachment and, potentially, removal from office.
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I doubt any of this will be sufficient to get at least 20 Republican senators to vote for Trump's removal from office.
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The answer is yes, he most certainly can -- though the initial punishment for such an offense is impeachment and removal from office.
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Given Hollywood's liberal bent, "commenting" often takes the form of critiquing Trump's policies, mocking his looks or imagining his removal from office.
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Sanders warned that talk of the president's removal from office could backfire on Democrats in 2202 by distracting from kitchen-table issues.
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He would soon become the first American governor to face removal from office through impeachment, a recall election, and a felony indictment.
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But since she initiated the process, there has been a significant upsurge in support for the president's impeachment and removal from office.
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Throughout the trial, both sides will draw upon the founding era for guidance about whether Trump's actions merit his removal from office.
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"Our goal is his removal from office — and the defeat of any politician who isn't with us," Moore said in his post.
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Half the country now supports Trump's removal from office, but there's been no discernible change in the national mood after the hearings.
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Support also dropped among Democrats: Seventy-seven percent of Democrats now back Trump's removal from office, compared to 90 percent in November.
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After a trial in the Senate, he escaped removal from office by a single vote, but his historical reputation remains rock-bottom.
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It's happening: Democrats on Tuesday formally called for President Trump's removal from office, charging him with abusing his power and obstructing Congress.
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But with the president facing possible removal from office over a corruption scandal, the fate of the system had been in doubt.
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The two articles are included in a nine-page resolution accusing Trump of unprecedented misconduct and calling for his removal from office.
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"We see increasingly the polling is going in favor of no impeachment and removal from office," Conway told reporters after the session.
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But with the president facing possible removal from office over a corruption scandal, the fate of the system has been in doubt.
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By making his call for Trump's removal from office conditional, he stopped short of some of his Democratic rivals, including Massachusetts Sen.
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Even if the Democrat-controlled House were to ultimately vote to impeach Trump, it's unlikely to lead to his removal from office.
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She&aposs already serving a 24-year prison term over a massive corruption scandal that led to her removal from office last year.
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He held his own press conference after the governor's announcement, calling his removal from office a political move by the NRA-backed governor.
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Approval of the impeachment inquiry reached a new high, 55%, in a Quinnipiac Poll out this morning, with 48% favoring removal from office.
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And if in fact he attempted to impede or prevent an investigation and obstructed justice, that is a basis for removal from office.
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During the speech, he denounced his opponents' calls for his removal from office, calling them "vampires" and saying they were preparing for violence.
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But like Graham, Rubio, and all Republicans except Romney, Cruz insisted it did not merit removal from office and voted to acquit him.
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The punishment for conviction in a Senate impeachment trial is removal from office and a prohibition on running for office in the future.
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President Donald Trump faces removal from office, yet markets have shrugged off impeachment and continued to march higher over the past several months.
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Democrats favor a more thorough, longer trial, which could be damaging to the president, despite the low likelihood of his removal from office.
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Schiff of course knows well that securing Trump's removal from office via a Senate trial doesn't require proof of a straight-up crime.
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On Monday afternoon, the RealClearPolitics polling average on impeachment and removal from office showed an exact tie, with 85033 percent for and against.
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Mr. Trump was surprised when the publication Christianity Today wrote an editorial calling for his removal from office amid the House impeachment inquiry.
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If that trend continues, the House managers could spend the balance of the week making their case for Mr. Trump's removal from office.
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The ANC called for his removal from office on Tuesday, although the party did not specify a time frame for him to leave.
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Trump has alienated the members of Congress he needs to approve his legislative agenda and to stave off impeachment and removal from office.
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It's at least the fourth such lunch with Republican senators at the White House this fall as the president faces removal from office.
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But Bharara's removal from office came as a surprise because Trump had met with him after the election and indicated he would be retained.
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Trump's removal from office is most unlikely barring a change of heart by his fellow Republicans, who hold a majority in the U.S. Senate.
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Even over recess, we saw another Democrat holdout support the impeachment investigation -- and polling shows a growing appetite for impeachment AND removal from office.
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They can deflect political heat from the investigations and control whether scattered calls for Trump's removal from office ever turn into an impeachment process.
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The gravity of what technically could have occurred that afternoon—Trump's immediate removal from office—was undercut considerably by the certainty of Trump's acquittal.
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In a separate vote that could follow in two or three months, a two-thirds majority would result in Rousseff's immediate removal from office.
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But Bharara's removal from office came as a surprise because Trump had met with him after the election and indicated he would be retained.
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The state of play: Per AP, the Venezuelan government cited alleged irregularities in Guaidó's financial records as a reason for his removal from office.
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But she said the House did not take all the necessary steps to prove the president committed a crime to justify removal from office.
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The Senate is expected to vote on her removal from office in late August or early September on impeachment charges of manipulating budget data.
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Politicians on both sides of the aisle, she argued, would ultimately have to take a stance on whether Trump's behavior warrants removal from office.
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But legal experts and constitutional scholars are divided over whether that action rises to the level of an offense that merits removal from office.
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Steyer, a wealthy former hedge fund manager turned activist, launched Need to Impeach last year, alleging that Trump's conduct warranted his removal from office.
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On May 16, Ross Douthat, a conservative columnist at the New York Times, wrote a searing column arguing for President Trump's removal from office.
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Mitt Romney (R-Utah), the only Republican to support Trump's removal from office in the impeachment trial, said Johnson's investigation appeared political in nature.
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During the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, delegates debated what kind of behavior should merit a president's removal from office.
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Many voters seem to be taking the allegations against Mr. Trump seriously, and they may eventually determine that his conduct merits removal from office.
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Ahead of his trial this week there has been an uptick in public sentiment in favor of Trump&aposs impeachment and removal from office.
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And as I've noted throughout this process, those who've argued against Trump's impeachment or removal from office have yet to present a robust case.
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But in the public hearings, Republicans will have a very public platform, arguing that what Trump did does not justify his removal from office.
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That is quite different from the 50 percent of Americans who support Trump's impeachment and removal from office, according to a recent Fox poll.
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But in the highly unlikely event that he is convicted, Trump's penalty would be removal from office, a remedy with far-reaching political implications.
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The court said it had done so because it was investigating her for misconduct, a process that could lead to her removal from office.
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Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano made a forceful case for President Donald Trump&aposs removal from office in an op-ed published Thursday.
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Especially since Republicans show no sign of disloyalty and Trump's removal from office by a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate remains unlikely.
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In 2014, she said that Obama was "absolutely overstepping his bounds" and "should face those repercussions" whether it be "removal from office" or impeachment.
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It prohibits any local gun ordinances and allows for personal punishment of officials through fines of up to $5,000, lawsuits and removal from office.
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But even if Democrats in the House do decide to begin impeachment proceedings, it's unlikely the move will result in Trump's removal from office.
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Hasan did not respond to a question of whether the PYD would seek Assad's removal from office, the core demand of the Syrian opposition.
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Their goal: to convince Americans that Trump abused his office and committed offenses that can be remedied only by impeachment and removal from office.
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However, markets quickly pared losses as investors bet the move would delay rather than prevent Rousseff's removal from office, given her weak support in Congress.
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Floridians are nearly as evenly split over support for Trump's removal from office, with 22019 percent of those polled indicating support and 48 percent opposing.
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Ciudadanos' reform measures also include ending legal protection for lawmakers and the immediate removal from office of politicians who become formal suspects in court cases.
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We don't need to know much more to know that the president has committed conduct that was once thought sufficient to warrant removal from office.
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Rousseff's government also hopes to raise salaries for federal police and tax agents before her likely removal from office, two sources told Reuters on Monday.
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Among those pushing for Trump's impeachment are Democratic lawmakers and liberal activists who've concluded that his removal from office is not only desirable, but necessary.
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Impeachment requires a majority vote in the House of Delegates, and removal from office would require the votes of two-thirds of the state Senate.
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But only 43 percent of Americans told CNN pollsters last month that they support Trump's impeachment and removal from office, while 50 percent opposed it.
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" In a tweet, Steyer said he would instead dedicate "28500% of my time and effort in 6900 towards Mr. Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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Now, Bolton could step into those shoes as congressional lawmakers investigate whether they should trigger a process that could result in Trump's removal from office.
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Those figures were exactly reversed on the question of Trump's potential removal from office, which was opposed by 85033 percent and favored by 44 percent.
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Tensions increased earlier this month when Sharif was jailed for 10 years on corruption-related charges which led to his removal from office last year.
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It would have required the president to pay a $500,000 fine but would have avoided a Senate trial and Mr. Clinton's possible removal from office.
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Many Democrats condemned Mr. Clinton at the time, but they opposed his removal from office, citing what they considered the partisan nature of the attempt.
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The other two, Barry Berke and Norm Eisen, helped handled the House Judiciary Committee's effort to make the constitutional case for Trump's removal from office.
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Most voters probably have a very high threshold for supporting impeachment and removal from office, as was the case for President Bill Clinton in 1998.
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The president took umbrage at a Fox News poll released late Wednesday that showed 51 percent of voters favoring his impeachment and removal from office.
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But 'persuadable" voters are not convinced that the charges warrant his removal from office and they were unnerved by the speed of the House's "deliberations.
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" He added, "President Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit.
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The assassination came with Trump&aposs approval rating mired at 42% and with him facing removal from office through impeachment in a US election year.
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House Democrats filed a lengthy legal brief on Saturday laying out the case for Trump's impeachment and removal from office over his dealings with Ukraine.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday unveiled the team of Democrats who will make the case for President Donald Trump's conviction and removal from office.
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An impeachment and successful removal from office wouldn't clear a president of any criminal charges he might have committed before, during or after his presidency.
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He was livid that Christianity Today — an influential publication founded by the evangelical leader Billy Graham — ran an editorial calling for his removal from office.
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The Senate's primary reason is likely to be that the wrongful behavior did not rise to the level of an offense warranting removal from office.
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In other words, Trump's gamble may be that 18 Republican senators will never agree with Democrats that asserting the Fifth Amendment requires removal from office.
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Democratic lawmakers acknowledge that their voters are hungry for Trump's removal from office, even if there is no consensus on the grounds for his impeachment.
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A conviction would require a two-thirds vote on at least one article, resulting in the president's removal from office, with no opportunity to appeal.
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For that to happen, 20 or more Republican senators will need to vote in favor of Trump's removal from office to hit the two-thirds threshold.
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And unlike many of the people around the White House, they're not afraid to say there's a chance this might end in his removal from office.
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New York (CNN Business)A former Trump Organization executive says she thinks President Donald Trump may resign rather than face possible removal from office by impeachment.
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The Iranian parliament backed the removal from office of Masoud Karbasian, minister of finance and economic affairs, by 137 votes to 121 against, state media said.
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House Democrats seeking Trump's removal from office repeatedly warned that an acquittal would embolden Trump to seek derogatory information on his political opponents from foreign powers.
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But if this did come to fruition, and Trump's removal from office was interpreted as unreasonably harsh by his base, then all hell would break loose.
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That said, they realize that all the rhetoric of years gone demanding his removal from office had little if any effect on the situation in Syria.
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João Paulo Roland, 36: Her temporary (and most certainly permanent) removal from office means that our economy now has a chance to recover from her wrongdoings.
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Miller's resignation, or even Trump's removal from office, will not address the rot—but we also won't be able to address the rot until they're gone.
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Lesson 2628: You need votes from the other party to succeed — Removal from office requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate, a very high bar.
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The rallies and protests have continued and broadened, however, with demonstrators calling for more democratic reforms in Hong Kong as well as Lam's removal from office.
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That's why I just announced that I will be dedicating 2628% of my time and effort in 28503 towards Mr. Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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While impeachment might seem like an adequate deterrent, because removal from office requires two-thirds of the Senate, presidents normally don't need to worry about impeachment.
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Some House Democrats are convinced that impeachment proceedings would be doomed to fall short of removal from office and therefore would only help the president politically.
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Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and none of them have yet said they supported Trump's impeachment, let alone his removal from office.
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Dershowitz's remarks served as the finale of sorts of Monday's proceedings, capping hours of oral arguments from Trump's attorneys against his impeachment and removal from office.
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A quick recap: the House of Representatives voted to impeached President Trump, and he's currently awaiting a Senate trial to deliberate his potential removal from office.
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The state House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee on Monday morning opened hearings on whether to recommend Bentley's impeachment, which could lead to his removal from office.
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By a whisker-thin 28500 percent to 6900 percent, the public opposes Trump's impeachment and removal from office if special counsel Robert Mueller gets the boot.
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Protesters rallied across the U.S. Tuesday evening to call for President Trump's removal from office, on the eve of the full House vote on impeachment articles.
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Texas recently enacted a law that requires local law enforcement officials to comply with detainers, or face a $25,000-a-day fine and removal from office.
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The overall share of voters who support Trump's impeachment and removal from office was little changed at 2628 percent, up 28500 point from the October survey.
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President Donald Trump&aposs impeachment trial will begin in earnest on Wednesday when both sides present opening arguments for and against Trump&aposs removal from office.
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The House Judiciary Committee will meet today to consider two articles of impeachment against President Trump, after Democratic leaders formally called for his removal from office.
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The GOP-controlled Senate may be even less inclined to move forward with removal from office in an impeachment when a "President Nancy Pelosi" is possible.
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"I think there's a rightful hesitation about removal from office, because obviously you have to consider that to some degree you're overturning an election," Cox said.
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For that to happen, at least two-thirds of the Senate, or 67 members, must vote to convict the president, resulting in his removal from office.
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If Trump's impeachment led to his removal from office, Vice President Mike Pence would serve out the remainder of his term, set to expire on Jan.
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But he included the caveat that Trump's removal from office could come either at the hands of the Senate or at the ballot box next November.
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Billy Graham, said in a Facebook post that his father would disagree with the magazine he founded, Christianity Today, calling for President Trump's removal from office.
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Quinnipiac's poll was among registered voters, rather than all adults, but often question wording makes a big difference, with their poll specifically referencing Trump's removal from office.
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Acting for personal interest rather than national interest while subverting congressional appropriations is a prime example of the autocratic conduct the Framers believed warranted removal from office.
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Today, 10 months remain in an election where the president now knows that there is practically nothing he can do that would cause his removal from office.
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Did the President's actions fall within his wide-ranging prerogative to set foreign policy or do they reach the constitutional bar for impeachment and removal from office?
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Despite the damning decision to order Zuma's "recall" - party speak for 'removal from office' - domestic media said the 75-year-old might yet defy the party's wishes.
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Before the Bentley scandal erupted, House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, was indicted (and later convicted on) felony ethics charges that led to his removal from office.
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Sharif, who was sentenced in absentia on July 6, was jailed for 10 years on corruption-related charges which led to his removal from office last year.
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This week, the House of Representatives will hold public hearings as lawmakers weigh whether to initiate a process that could ultimately result in Trump's removal from office.
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"In any civilized country in the world that has legal democratic institutions, such a punishment must be very narrowly interpreted," he said, referring to removal from office.
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I have something to tell you that you may not want to hear: Everyone still hoping for Donald Trump's removal from office is hoping against the odds.
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Impeachment is the clearest and most constitutionally straightforward punishment for crimes by a sitting president, and the one most likely to lead to Trump's removal from office.
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But alluding to them in the immediate aftermath of a trial in which a bipartisan group of senators voted for his removal from office is especially brazen.
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"I do not believe the House has met its burden that the President's conduct, however flawed, warrants the extreme step of immediate removal from office," Collins said.
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But like everything in the Trump era, this presumption is being stress-tested, only this time the theater of battle is the president's potential removal from office.
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New data from Insider SurveyMonkey Audience polling shows that Americans under 30 support Trump&aposs removal from office by a larger margin than any other age group.
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First, a vote to subpoena witnesses would strike at the heart of the president's efforts — which continue to this day — to impede his own removal from office.
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On Thursday, the managers argued why the facts they outlined one day prior showed that the President abused his office — and warranted impeachment and removal from office.
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Impeachment does not require GOP support in the House, but steadfast support from Trump's party would block his conviction and removal from office in a Senate trial.
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While Nadler's presentation focused on legal and constitutional precedent that supports Trump's removal from office, Garcia zeroed in on the conduct at the center of Trump's impeachment.
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Pelosi announced Thursday morning that the House would move forward with impeaching Trump, saying his actions left them "no choice" but to pursue his removal from office.
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They are Presidential policy preferences, but for many voters, they likely also constitute a crime against the climate they think justifies his removal from office next election.
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President Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
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The White House will not participate in future House Judiciary Committee hearings that are designed to outline evidence in support of President Donald Trump's removal from office.
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The president's directive to lawmakers came one day after the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from constitutional scholars on whether Trump's conduct justified his removal from office.
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Or, those who foresee more extreme consequences may see Trump's potential removal from office as a threat to the regulatory, tax, and trade policies that they support.
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The Economist poll showed a plurality of Americans backing both Trump's impeachment (45 percent to 39 percent) and his removal from office (47 percent to 40 percent).
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Why it matters: Since Christianity Today released an editorial op-ed calling for Trump's removal from office, the president has been working to strengthen his evangelical base.
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THAAD was due to be operational in South Korea by the end of 2017, during Park's remaining presidency, but her removal from office has thrown that into question.
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Sorensen's memo explained that had the vice presidency remained vacant at the time of a Nixon removal from office, Albert would have become president under the 25th Amendment.
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Others among the millions of South Koreans who agitated for Ms Park's removal from office expect the next president to satisfy their demands for a fairer political system.
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Therefore, Donald John Trump by causing such harm to the society of the United States is unfit to be President and warrants impeachment, trial, and removal from office.
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Investors have been worried that the case against Gordhan could lead to his removal from office and a possible end to his efforts to rein in public spending.
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The bottom line: Mugabe's tyranny was purely the product of his own ruthlessness and lust for control, and his removal from office the result of miscalculation and overreach.
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The bill would create a congressional "oversight" commission that could declare the president incapacitated, leading to his removal from office under the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Michel Temer, Brazil's new president, may have just vanquished his rival, Dilma Rousseff, in the bruising impeachment battle that resulted in her final removal from office on Wednesday.
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In the Senate, however, his actual removal from office would require 67 votes, or support from at least 20 Republican Senators, assuming all 47 Democrats vote to remove.
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The right-wing Progressive Party (PP) has announced it is leaving the government, and it will support Rousseff's removal from office in the big vote planned for Sunday.
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" If you think the president is a danger to the republic, Mr. Hasan asked, "then how can you advocate for anything other than his swift removal from office?
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Constitutional scholars say that similar offenses — ones involving the lawless use of official power threatening the constitutional order — are what the framers thought could justify removal from office.
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Ms. Rousseff decried her removal from office in August 2016 as a "coup," masterminded by center-right politicians who had failed to attain power through the ballot box.
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The response reiterated Dershowitz's broader argument that the articles of impeachment against Trump do not allege a crime, and therefore don't meet the threshold for removal from office.
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The president most recently criticized Smith in a tweet on Thursday while knocking a Fox News poll that showed growing support for his impeachment and removal from office.
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Over the last week, polling averages have shown only a slight uptick in the share of rank-and-file Republicans and independents who favor Trump's removal from office.
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"A president can indeed commit acts against the public trust that are so egregious that while they're not statutory crimes, they would demand removal from office," he said.
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The moves come as the president seeks to galvanize his support among evangelical Christians after a leading magazine, Christianity Today, called for his impeachment and removal from office.
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In the coming days, Ms. Pelosi is expected to choose a half dozen or so managers to argue on the Senate floor for President Trump's removal from office.
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Republicans are more unified against removal from office (33% say Trump should not be removed) than Democrats are in favor of it (23% say he should be removed).
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According to the Constitution, two-thirds of the Senate, or 67 lawmakers, need to vote to convict an impeached official in order to trigger their removal from office.
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The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is scheduled to resume Thursday as Democratic House managers press their case for the president's conviction and removal from office.
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Democratic House impeachment managers laid out their arguments Friday that President Donald Trump obstructed Congress — the final prong of their case for Trump's conviction and removal from office.
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And just 16% of those college evangelicals support Trump's impeachment and removal from office, compared with 7% of non-college evangelical men and 23% percent of the women.
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Following Mr. Lutsenko's allegations, Mr. Giuliani and others made a number of public statements critical of Ambassador Yovanovitch, questioning her integrity and calling for her removal from office.
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Activists are set to start a 10-day march from Charlottesville, Va., to Washington, D.C., on Monday to confront white supremacy and demand President Trump's removal from office.
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It's a sign that there may be almost nothing Democrats can unearth in their impeachment inquiry that will move many GOP senators to support Trump's removal from office.
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He has previously argued that people would "revolt" if it ever came to pass and praised Pelosi for her restraint amid past calls for his removal from office.
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In the meantime, of course, the Senate makes Trump's removal from office before the 2020 election almost assuredly a nonstarter, no matter what the House decides to do.
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Under the new church laws announced by Pope Francis on Saturday, Catholic bishops who cover up for pedophile priests will be investigated and could face removal from office.
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In the liberal imagination, that blowup typically takes the form of Trump's removal from office, an event that sets us back to a path of normalcy and sane politics.
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Moon Jae-in, who lost to Park in the 2012 election and is seen as a frontrunner to replace her, was quick to cheer the president's removal from office.
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The House Committee on the Judiciary held hearings in February and March 1920 into three bills and one resolution addressing the topics of presidential disability and removal from office.
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But, after a certain point, raking over his unfitness becomes an exercise in wish-fulfilment, because the subtext is so often the desire for his early removal from office.
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"Federal law sets forth as a penalty for recusal violations removal from office, and the Attorney General's violation in this case appears to be particularly grave," the letter reads.
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He praised Moore for refusing to take down a Ten Commandments monument he commissioned for the state Supreme Court building, which led to his removal from office in 2003.
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Trump's endgame is likely focused on the 34 Republican senators he will need to stave off removal from office if impeachment articles are issued by the House of Representatives.
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When President Richard Nixon was informed that no more than 15 Republican senators still supported him after the Watergate revelations, making him vulnerable to removal from office, he resigned.
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Impeachment (the equivalent of an indictment in a normal trial) would have required a majority vote of the House, and removal from office a supermajority vote of the Senate.
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"I do not believe the House has met its burden of showing that the president's conduct, however flawed, warrants the extreme step of immediate removal from office," Collins said.
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On that Tuesday, thousands of demonstrators packed the streets of Cairo's central Tahrir Square demanding Mubarak's removal from office, as they had done every day for over two weeks.
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"There's a very much higher standard at stake here," Philbin said, contending that the House managers "have failed at their burden of proof" for warranting Trump's removal from office.
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A statement provided by Dershowitz from Trump's legal team said he will present oral arguments at the trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal from office.
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Nine-in-10 Republican voters approve of his job performance and oppose his removal from office, even as most other Americans do not, according to a recent CNN poll.
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The Mason-Dixon poll released Thursday morning found that 21625 percent of respondents support Trump's impeachment and subsequent removal from office, with 2900 percent opposed and 220006 percent unsure.
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In the liberal imagination, that blow-up took the form of Trump's removal from office, an event that sets us back toward a path of normalcy and sane politics.
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That Trump escaped removal from office for what he did is less the concern about Wednesday's impeachment vote than the thing an unbridled and shameless President will do next.
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" He did not call for removal from office but said the "Senate needs to have a fair trial and that the president's aides have to be allowed to testify.
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The 72-year-old Nadler, a Fordham Law School graduate, will likely buttress Schiff's presentation of facts by laying out the reason Trump's alleged offenses warrant removal from office.
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"Certainly, there always needs to be more investigation, but based on what we have right now, I think there's a prima facie case for removal from office," Butterfield said.
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President Donald Trump's lawyers laid out a multi-pronged defense in the Senate impeachment trial Monday, pushing back on House Democrats' case for Trump's conviction and removal from office.
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It also would have ensured that police chiefs, sheriffs and constables could face removal from office and even criminal charges for failing to comply with such federal "detainer" requests.
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The CNN poll, on the other hand, showed independents supporting Trump's removal from office, albeit by a narrow margin — 47 percent in favor of removal versus 21625 percent against.
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The country has been preoccupied since last year by a political scandal that embroiled President Park Geun-hye and ultimately led to her removal from office on March 10.
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However the trial is structured, it ends with senators voting on the two "charges" — and Trump's removal from office would require 67 "yes" votes on one or both articles.
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As Vox's Aaron Rupar explains, however, open hearings could change their mind: That same poll indicates that majorities in each of those states currently oppose Trump's removal from office.
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"But if the facts reveal an increasing number of things that he has actually done, then of course impeachment is possible and removal from office is possible," he predicted.
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In a different era, when both parties believed in the Constitution, Trump's abuse of his position for personal gain would have led to his removal from office long ago.
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Sharif is also currently appearing before an accountability court - proceedings ordered by the Supreme Court after his removal from office in July - that could have him jailed if found guilty.
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" (Portman statement) Pat Roberts Clinton: "Do these actions rise to the level envisioned by our founding fathers in the Constitution as 'high crimes and misdemeanors' so warranting removal from office?
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Virtually every major poll shows that a majority or plurality of Americans support the impeachment inquiry, with many showing a plurality of support for Trump's conviction and removal from office.
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If Trump and Pence were both implicated in the scandal and Pence's resignation or removal from office occurred first, Trump could nominate a new vice president under the 25th Amendment.
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Dale L. Bumpers, a former Democratic senator from Arkansas who made a passionate closing argument defending President Bill Clinton against removal from office in a Senate hearing, died at 22019.
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If he were to do that, I think that would absolutely be grounds for removal from office," the California Democrat said Wednesday in an interview on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront.
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Some, such as top former presidential advisors, are also defendants in the corruption scandal that led to the removal from office of South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Friday.
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BRASÍLIA — Brazil's suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, took the stand on Monday at her impeachment trial in the Senate, delivering a last-ditch defense to prevent her final removal from office.
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But House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently tamped down talk of impeachment, arguing that while he has been "reckless," Trump hasn't done anything that merits removal from office.
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A two-thirds vote by senators is required for a conviction, which could lead to removal from office and a disqualification of holding any other public office in the state.
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The big picture: Mugabe's unexpected appearance comes a day before the country's historic election and eight months after his dramatic removal from office amid military pressure and internal party feud.
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Yet at the same time, a crucial sliver of relatively moderate voters — just 7 percent of the electorate — support the inquiry without backing Mr. Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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"I do not believe that the House has met its burden of showing that the president's conduct, however flawed, warrants the extreme step of immediate removal from office," she said.
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Interestingly, the Constitution explicitly contemplates the possibility of criminal prosecution following impeachment and removal from office, but is silent regarding whether a sitting president can be charged with a crime.
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To the Editor: Because I have taught for some 50 years, I'd like to offer some pedagogical advice to those arguing both for and against President Trump's removal from office.
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The law provides for jail time, fines and removal from office for Texas authorities who refuse to take part in the immigrant deportation system in the way the law requires.
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Recent suggestions about the censure of Trump echo the 85033 chatter from folks who sought a way to criticize Clinton without going so far as to threaten removal from office.
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But Whitaker declined to say if he had discussed with Rosenstein the deputy attorney general's comments about invoking the 25th Amendment in an effort to trigger Trump's removal from office.
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"President Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States," the articles conclude.
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Fundamentally, impeachment is a political process with a political remedy (removal from office), while criminal charges address violations of law by imposing a punitive remedy (imprisonment and/or a fine).
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But Trump's approval rating among Republicans has remained at about 90% or slightly more in many surveys, and roughly the same share of GOP partisans oppose his removal from office.
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Only the president, vice president and "all civil Officers of the United States" are covered, and the penalty for conviction by two thirds of the Senate is removal from office.
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"I will be dedicating 100% of my time, effort, and resources to one cause: working for Mr. Trump's impeachment and removal from office," Steyer told reporters in Des Moines on Wednesday.
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Not until the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Nixon had to turn over incriminating Oval Office audio tapes did a majority of the country come to favor his removal from office.
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Wherefore, Donald Trump, by such conduct warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
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I am not claiming today that Putin has negative information against Trump that would be so devastating it would destroy his presidency and lead to his removal from office if disclosed.
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But Greitens still faces possible removal from office, as lawmakers will gather Friday for a special session of the state legislature to investigate the charges against him and consider impeachment proceedings.
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The scandal provoked months of huge protests that culminated in the parliamentary impeachment of Ms. Park in December and her formal removal from office and arrest on corruption charges in March.
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Nearly all Senate Republicans have scoffed at the idea of an impeachment vote in the House, let alone a conviction in the Senate that would force Mr. Trump's removal from office.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump is nearing a pivotal vote on whether to hear from witnesses requested by Senate Democrats arguing for his removal from office.
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By early Friday afternoon, deputy assistant attorney general Hashim Mooppan had put into writing DOJ's objections about the House's "unprecedented commingling" of using a lawsuit to back Trump's removal from office.
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In other words, Dershowitz argued, because Trump believes his reelection is in the public interest, any legal actions he made to pursue that interest cannot be grounds for removal from office.
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The poll, which was taken between January 219-23.4, found that 51% of Americans say the Senate should convict Trump in his impeachment trial, which would trigger his removal from office.
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House Democrats get three days for opening arguments, and they'll use their second day to put forth the constitutional framework for why Trump's alleged abuse of power merits removal from office.
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President Donald Trump blasted the conservative cable network Fox News on Thursday after it reported that its new poll on impeachment found a majority of respondents favoring his removal from office.
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The Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump is scheduled to resume on Wednesday as Democratic House managers begin laying out their case for the president's conviction and removal from office.
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Mitt Romney has an open mind Removal from office takes a supermajority of the Senate, and nobody thinks there are 20 Republican senators who would defect and remove Trump from office.
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While working in the office of the independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who was investigating Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Kavanaugh listed 11 grounds for Clinton's removal from office.
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Two-thirds of them say they disapprove of his performance in office and more than three-fifths said they would support not only his impeachment but also his removal from office.
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Protests started over the rising costs of living but escalated into a push for Bashir's removal from office, with mass rallies and sit-ins outside the presidential compound and army headquarters.
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President Donald Trump's response to Christianity Today's moral argument for his removal from office illustrated the very reason the prominent evangelical publication concluded he has to go in the first place.
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Running for the Senate as a House member who opposed Clinton's impeachment, Schumer actually ended up voting against Clinton's removal from office three times, a record that may never be broken.
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What he's saying: Flake writes that some Republicans may conclude that Trump's action warrant removal from office, while others will believe the president's misdeeds don't rise to the level of impeachment.
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ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Deposed Iraqi Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari on Thursday accused former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of orchestrating his removal from office, publicly exposing rifts within an increasingly unstable government.
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Senators took their last shot on Thursday to extract new information from the House prosecutors calling for President Donald Trump's removal from office, as well as the team of attorneys defending him.
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Juan Carlos Claret, spokesman for a group of lay Catholics in Osorno who fought for Barros' removal from office, said it was a "minimum condition" that they had sought from the pope.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has cited concerns that launching impeachment proceedings that do not result in Trump's removal from office could only serve to the president's benefit ahead of an election year.
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If they pose a major threat to representative democracy under the Constitution and to the national security of the United States, then they are solid grounds for impeachment and removal from office.
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Patti Blagojevich has repeatedly appealed to Trump to pardon her husband, who met Trump as a contestant on "Celebrity Apprentice" in 2010 between his impeachment and removal from office and his conviction.
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The official spoke on condition of anonymity without authorization to publicly describe internal strategy, but the language echoed the definition in the Constitution of behavior that warrants impeachment and removal from office.
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"I'm not going to say it's agreeable to be booed," she said, referring to the large street protests over the past year in which opponents have called for her removal from office.
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Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told a local paper this week that Clinton's conduct at State would meet the standard for removal from office if she were elected.
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There is no war room preparing to deal with Mr. Mueller's findings and no intention to set one up, as Mr. Clinton did when he faced impeachment and possible removal from office.
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Unfortunately, the drama over the Flynn plea and White House tweeting continues to draw time and resources away from the Constitution's one true answer for presidential corruption: impeachment and removal from office.
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Our top legal reporter looked at the kinds of acts the framers thought could justify removal from office, and how they played out in the impeachments of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.
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While many Christian groups have backed the president, the magazine Christianity Today created an uproar among Christians when it published an op-ed article that supported his impeachment and removal from office.
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Some of these voters may support impeachment on the merits but have questioned whether Congress should pursue it if it is unpopular or unlikely to result in Mr. Trump's removal from office.
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Many Republicans instead are eager to shift the attention away from the President's conduct and onto House Democrats, whom they argue failed to prove that Trump's actions warrant his removal from office.
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During the first day of the question-and-answer, senators quizzed prosecutors and defense lawyers about the merits of impeaching Trump and whether there was a basis for his removal from office.
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The former vice president stopped short of calling for Trump's removal from office, but his remarks signaled that he may be moving into a more aggressive phase in his campaign against Trump.
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If they admit Trump's wrongdoings but claim it doesn't justify his removal from office, they will be asking senators to vote in favor of joining a corrupt plot against American self-government.
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In a sign that voters are making little distinction between the House's investigation and the likely Senate trial, 50 percent of voters in the Morning Consult poll backed Trump's removal from office.
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Others pointed to a key quote by Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers spelling out the distinctly political nature of the offenses that could result in a president&aposs removal from office.
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The partisan divide on this question mirrors that on impeachment and removal from office: 74% of Democrats say he used the office improperly, along with 47% of independents and 17% of Republicans.
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Even if Mueller is allowed to complete his investigation, the likelihood of anything he finds making a dramatic change to the political environment or leading to Trump's removal from office is slim.
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If there is a Senate trial, the White House cannot afford to lose more than 20 Republicans — provided all of the Democrats stand together on a conviction and his removal from office.
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Hours earlier, House Democrats had formally called for Mr. Trump's removal from office, announcing two articles of impeachment against him, one for obstruction of Congress and the other for abuse of power.
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Romania's justice minister, Tudorel Toader, instigated her removal from office last summer, accusing her of abusing her powers and damaging Romania's image abroad by publicly drawing attention to the country's corruption problems.
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The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday there was insufficient evidence to order Sharif's removal from office but called for further investigation into corruption allegations in connection with the so-called Panama Papers leaks.
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Public opposition can make it more difficult to justify a president's removal from office, as shown by the Bill Clinton's impeachment by the House in 1998 and acquittal by the Senate in 1999.
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Most significantly, Judge Garcia ruled that Texas cannot force local police to hand undocumented immigrants over to federal immigration officials or punish officials with fines and removal from office for "endorsing" other views.
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After a dispute over rubbish-collection contracts in 2012 left garbage piling up for three days, opposition parties launched a petition to recall him and the inspector-general ordered his removal from office.
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Close Pelosi allies insist she couldn't gain majority support for impeachment even if she tried, not to mention the two-thirds of a Republican-run Senate needed for conviction and removal from office.
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I mean, just a few months ago, South Koreans showed up in the literal MILLIONS to peacefully protest their president in the streets, which led to her historic impeachment and removal from office.
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If it does, Trump could be charged by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives with an impeachable "high crime or misdemeanor," warranting a trial before the Senate, and if convicted, removal from office.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled there was insufficient evidence to order Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's removal from office over corruption allegations levelled by the opposition, but it ordered further investigations.
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But the lower house of congress is preparing to vote on whether he should face a trial in the Supreme Court, which would prompt his removal from office for at least 180 days.
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This called for making as solid a case as possible for the conviction of Nixon and his removal from office, and that began with spending months gathering as much pertinent material as possible.
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If Democrats were to pass articles of impeachment upon potentially taking the House in November's midterm elections, the president would face a trial in the Senate that could lead to removal from office.
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Tlaib is one of few Democratic lawmakers to call for Trump's removal from office, however House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders have tread more carefully around the topic of impeachment.
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Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee has been on a trial since being arrested for his alleged role in the scandal that led to the removal from office of Park earlier this month.
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Ukraine, which denounced his entry as illegal, has been trying in vain since then to arrest Mr. Saakashvili, who has led a series of street protests calling for Mr. Poroshenko's removal from office.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's impeachment trial may not result in his removal from office, but it could help determine whether his Republicans retain control of the Senate in the November congressional elections.
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Mr. Trump disputed Mr. Bolton's recollections, but White House lawyers said it did not matter even if he was right because it would not add up to an offense meriting removal from office.
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They painted Trump as a victim of a partisan attempt to undo the 22020 election and insisted that even if the president had acted inappropriately, it did not warrant his removal from office.
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Democrats are seeking Mr. Trump's removal from office on the grounds that he abused his power by pressing Ukraine to investigate targets of the president, including Mr. Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
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Alan Dershowitz, one of the lawyers representing President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, dismissed the idea that evidence in John Bolton&aposs coming book might prompt the president&aposs removal from office.
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In fact, the US Constitution plainly states that in Article 1, Section 3 that the only penalty Trump faces is "removal from office" and disqualification to hold any elected office in the future.
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Cox was fired by the solicitor general, Robert Bork, igniting an outcry over the Watergate scandal that eventually forced Nixon to resign in August 1974 rather than face removal from office by Congress.
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The investigation is probing whether Trump misused the power of his office and, if so, whether that amounted to "high crimes and misdemeanors" that merit impeachment and removal from office under the Constitution.
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Reasonable Americans may have concluded — after a full airing of the documents the White House has bottled up, of the witnesses it has smothered — that removal from office was too extreme a punishment.
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Only three previous American presidents have faced removal from office via impeachment, so Tuesday's announcement by Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the House is opening a formal impeachment investigation of President Trump was historic.
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Sens. Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday called for Congress to launch impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump, becoming the latest 2020 Democratic White House contenders to endorse the president's removal from office.
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But members of Trump&aposs legal team disagree and say that the first presidential impeachment trial, in 1868, set the precedent for the kind of offenses that can result in removal from office.
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Since Trump's removal from office by the Republican-controlled Senate looks all but impossible, the real drama of the situation now revolves around whether new witnesses like Bolton will be called to testify.
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Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar described President Donald Trump's behavior as unambiguously impeachable, calling it "a global Watergate" and the textbook behavior of what the Founding Fathers considered worthy of removal from office.
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After James Madison made comments that were critical of impeachment for mere "maladministration," the Framers added "other high crimes and misdemeanors" to distinguish between unpopular policy choices and conduct warranting removal from office.
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"(It) doesn't mean the House is ever going to vote to impeach," Conway said, adding that the Republican-controlled Senate is also "highly unlikely to convict" Trump leading to his removal from office.
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"I will not resign, that never crossed my mind," Rousseff said in a speech to a conference hall full of women supporters who cheered when she vowed to keep fighting her removal from office.
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After the vote to convict Mr. Porteous, which automatically carries the penalty of removal from office, senators raced for the exits amid confusion over whether a second vote was needed on the future ban.
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On Monday she said, "I cannot vote to convict" Trump, and indicated a preference for a much softer penalty than the removal from office that Democrats have been clamoring for — a "censure" by Congress.
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It would also result in a misdemeanor charge for sheriffs, police chiefs and constables who fail to comply with detention requests and in removal from office for elected and appointed officials, Abbott's office said.
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Markets took a beating after news reports said Temer had been caught on tape condoning bribes to silence a key witness in Brazil's biggest-ever graft probe, fueling calls for his removal from office.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille has returned to work after a South African court ruled that her removal from office by the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party should be temporarily suspended.
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"As people learn how long impeachment can take and the fact that impeachment doesn't mean the removal from office, I think people are going to start to pull back from it," he told Hill.
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But nothing horrible really happens to the impeached officer -- no removal from office, and no disqualification from future office-holding -- unless the Senate convicts, and the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote for conviction.
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While Trump's family members may have liability, he could issue pardons if they committed federal crimes, and impeachment would not result in Trump's removal from office unless 20 Republican senators voted to convict him.
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" (Please note: We regularly highlight articles on news sites that have limited access for nonsubscribers.) • Representative Jackie Speier, of San Mateo, called for President Trump's removal from office, citing "erratic behavior and mental instability.
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For Republicans, especially those senators who oppose removal from office and are running in swing states this year, censure plausibly allows them to go on the record condemning the President's misconduct — short of removal.
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A recent Pew poll found a slight majority of Americans supporting Trump's removal from office, with 63% saying he has definitely or probably broke the law, and 70% concluding he has done unethical things.
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No Republican senators who spoke to reporters during breaks in the proceedings on Wednesday and Thursday said they had heard anything to convince them that Trump's interactions with Ukraine warranted his removal from office.
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And although the evidence demonstrates that Mr. Trump has committed crimes, Mr. Dershowitz asserted that, unless those crimes are explicitly stated in articles of impeachment, they cannot lead to Mr. Trump's removal from office.
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Indeed, I argued in the book that it would be not merely foolish but counterproductive to commence impeachment proceedings against a president as to whom there was no political prospect of removal from office.
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"I do not believe the House has met its burden that the President's conduct, however flawed, warrants the extreme step of immediate removal from office," Collins said in a speech on the Senate floor.
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Still, the president and Republican Party as a whole remain very unpopular with black voters, as 76 percent of them disapprove of the president's performance and nearly 80 percent support his removal from office.
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a rally at a Hispanic megachurch near Miami Friday night, two weeks after an editorial in the influential publication Christianity Today called for his removal from office.
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Counsel also tried to thread the needle, suggesting that Trump didn't commit the offenses he is charged with, and that even if he had, they do not meet the threshold for removal from office.
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Constitutional experts said that they were baffled by the argument and that there was a mountain of evidence that the framers intended removal from office to be a punishment for broader abuses of power.
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"If the facts reveal an increasing number of things that he has actually done, then of course impeachment is possible and removal from office is possible," the nation's oldest living former president told MSNBC.
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A journalist at the Christian Post, an evangelical newspaper, is resigning over the paper's plans run an editorial slamming its competitor, Christianity Today, for running a story that called for Trump's removal from office.
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Shortly after Trump's bilateral meeting with Stoltenberg, one reporter asked the president whether he had heard about speculation that U.S. lawmakers could consider pursuing censure over impeachment, which could lead to removal from office.
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Incumbent Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi resigned midnight Thursday, ending a turbulent tenure since July 2017 when he replaced Nawaz Sharif following his removal from office by the Supreme Court for concealing financial assets abroad.
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A full-page newspaper advertisement in the Washington Post offers $173 million from Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt for information leading to the impeachment and removal from office of US President Donald Trump, on Oct.
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"I do not believe the House has met its burden of showing that the president's conduct, however, flawed, warrants the extreme step of immediate removal from office," Collins said of the abuse of power charge.
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But their passion, and the mounting evidence against the President, raises the question of whether the drive for impeachment is more likely to result in Trump's removal from office or in a Democratic civil war.
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House Democrats, who are conducting a sprawling investigation into Trump, say it is in their hands to examine whether Trump committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" and conclude whether his actions warrant his removal from office.
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There's also a non-zero chance that special counsel Robert Mueller will uncover evidence in the Russia investigation that could persuade a sufficient number of Republicans in the Senate to support Trump's removal from office.
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With cameras rolling, the hearings will give voters and viewers a peek at the deliberations as both parties wage a high-wattage public relations battle over whether Trump's actions should force his removal from office.
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Senators, who act as a trial jury, may then decide that the charges are not justified, that the evidence isn't sufficient for the official's conviction, or that removal from office is too heavy a punishment.
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Temer, who was Rousseff's vice president, sought to establish a market-friendly image after taking power following her removal from office in 2016, setting austere fiscal goals and naming several orthodox economists to his cabinet.
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But it was clear that Justice Chase's behavior did not qualify as "high crimes and misdemeanors," and the Senate voted against ousting him, finding no reason for his removal from office on a constitutional basis.
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Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives this month, but his trial in the Senate is not expected to lead to his removal from office and the market has so far ignored the proceedings.
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Trump's defense, however, effectively argued that a president has leeway to do whatever he wants if it's in the interest of his reelection, and that any wrongdoing he committed did not warrant removal from office.
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Bill Clinton never seriously faced removal from office during his Senate trial, not because his Democratic allies had a majority in the chamber but because even some of his Republican foes did not desire it.
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In an email sent to his House Democratic colleagues, he said that he planned to file a resolution first thing Monday morning that lists the reasons he believes that Fairfax's conduct warrants removal from office.
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Appelbaum says that beginning the impeachment process is a way for Congress to take control of the allegations that Trump has committed offenses that may rise to the level of grounds for removal from office.
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It will also close the first year of the Democratic House majority with a call for the president's removal from office — just the third time in history the House will have taken such a step.
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In a speech on the Senate floor, Collins said Trump's actions with Ukraine were "wrong" as well as "improper and demonstrated very poor judgment," but added that removal from office was too strong a response.
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About a dozen progressive advocacy groups planned to converge on the Senate daily beginning on Monday to demand Mr. Trump's removal from office, rallying not just around the charges against him but against military escalation.
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Although the acts of the president with respect to Ukraine are sufficient to warrant his removal from office, limiting the scope of removal proceedings to those issues ignores his egregious behavior in many other areas.
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The two articles, which accuse Mr. Trump of abusing the power of his office and obstructing Congress, bring a sitting president to the brink of removal from office for the fourth time in American history.
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But instead of Trump's removal from office as a remedy, it would essentially place the impeachment process in abeyance until the House can determine whether it will be able to hear from additional key witnesses.
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Since her formal removal from office on March 10 by the Constitutional Court, she had lost most of the other perks provided to an ex-president, like an office, a personal staff and a pension.
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Some Republicans have called for Koskinen's removal from office in the wake of allegations that the IRS improperly targeted tea party and other conservative groups, although Koskinen joined the agency after the controversy came to light.
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The protests first began in late 2018 over the rising costs of living, and escalated into a push for Bashir's removal from office, with mass rallies and sit-ins outside the presidential compound and army headquarters.
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Recent polls show the country is closely divided over impeachment, with most surveys finding a majority of Americans supporting the investigation itself but about the same number of voters supporting and opposing Trump's removal from office.
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After a monthlong trial in the Senate in early 21998, Mr. Clinton was acquitted — less because of doubt that he did it than because of doubt that it was momentous enough to merit removal from office.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff held last-minute negotiations with wavering lawmakers on Saturday in an effort to secure crucial support the day before an impeachment vote that could lead to her removal from office.
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All this is happening amid management upheaval at South Korea's biggest family-run conglomerate, with third-generation leader Lee embroiled in a scandal that has already led to Park's removal from office for allegedly receiving bribes.
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Since Trump was elected, she has positioned herself as a fierce Trump critic: She refused to attend his inauguration and boycotted his State of the Union address, and she's repeatedly called for his removal from office.
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" The president was responding to an editorial by Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Gally published Thursday that called for Trump's removal from office and described the facts revealed in the House impeachment process as "unambiguous.
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Paying close attention doesn't ensure that voters will resolve to remove the president, either: Trump voters who say they're following the impeachment news "very closely" oppose impeachment and removal from office, 97 percent to 3 percent.
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A few Republicans have conceded that they believe Democrats proved their case that Mr. Trump tried to leverage security aid to Ukraine for political gain, but argue that doing so does not warrant removal from office.
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DOJ replied Friday afternoon pushing back on the Democrats' interpretation Sekulow's remarks and arguing that it's actually the House that is engaging in an "unprecedented commingling" of using a lawsuit to back Trump's removal from office.
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Those investigations, which Trump raised on a July 85033 call with Ukraine's president, are now at the center of House Democrats' case for Trump's removal from office over allegations he abused his power and obstructed Congress.
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Starr, who pursued Clinton's impeachment on the charge that he lied to investigators about sexual activity, told senators that impeachment was so grave that not even a criminal act was enough to warrant removal from office.
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As opening arguments continue in President Donald Trump&aposs Senate impeachment trial, new data from Insider polling shows that Americans under 30 support his removal from office by a larger margin than any other age group.
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Mr. Starr has distinguished between Mr. Clinton's actions, which he called clear felonies, and Mr. Trump's efforts to pressure Ukraine to provide incriminating information about Democrats, which he called "woefully inadequate" justification for removal from office.
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The magazine's editor in chief, Mark Galli, argued that it was "profoundly immoral" that Mr. Trump had attempted to persuade his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate a political rival, and called for the president's removal from office.
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President Donald Trump called House impeachment manager Jerry Nadler "a sleazebag" on Wednesday, hours before he and fellow Democrats were to begin laying out their case in the Senate for Trump's conviction and removal from office.
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But for some red state Democrats, they face equally challenging calculations, hailing from constituencies where Trump is more popular even as their base voters believe Trump's conduct with Ukraine is worthy of his removal from office.
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In a state with the nation's second-largest Hispanic population, the new law threatens sheriffs, police chiefs and other officials with jail time and removal from office if they do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
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"Second, The Journal highlighted a particular phrase (emphasis ours): "President Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
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Those precedents suggest the revelations about Trump's conduct in the Ukraine investigation could complicate his path to a second term, whatever polls say now about the public response to his potential impeachment and removal from office.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Demonstrators rallied in New York on Tuesday night to call for U.S. President Donald Trump's impeachment and removal from office on the eve of the House of Representatives' expected vote to impeach him.
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He said Ms. Park had made some "trivial" mistakes — like seeking feedback on some of her speeches from Ms. Choi, who held no official post — but that none were serious enough to warrant removal from office.
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The court voted 4-3 to acquit the Rousseff-Temer ticket, avoiding the removal from office of the center-right Temer who has been besieged by economic recession and corruption scandals since replacing Rousseff last year.
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A spokesman for Mr. Cuomo, Richard Azzopardi, said the governor's own legal team would also be examining the case and precedent "in order to determine potential next steps," which could include Mr. Abelove's removal from office.
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The removal from office of a judge who would rule on any issues were the election contested was so swift that it prompted statements of concern from the United States, Britain, the European Union and others.
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The anti-Bashir demonstrations began in late 2018 over the rising cost of living and escalated into a push for his removal from office, with mass rallies and sit-ins outside the presidential compound and army headquarters.
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The legality of Rousseff's imminent removal from office was questioned by the secretary general of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, who said he would seek the legal opinion of the Inter-American Human Rights Court.
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This, by precedent, at least, ultimately involves public impeachment proceedings in committee and on the House floor, to determine whether the articles of impeachment should be carried to the Senate for trial and possible removal from office.
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Once members of Congress and the rest of the public read the first transcripts of the many conversations in which Nixon choreographed the cover-up after Watergate, Nixon's impeachment and removal from office was a foregone conclusion.
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The development is the latest twist in a long feud between Ukrainian authorities and Saakashvili, who has turned on his one-time patron President Petro Poroshenko, accusing him of corruption and calling for his removal from office.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Demonstrations in Brazil's biggest city against the removal from office of former President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday devolved into clashes between masked protestors and police, who fired tear gas canisters to clear the streets.
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Rob Portman suggest it remains possible that a majority of the Senate even agrees with the House that Trump's actions toward Ukraine were improper, though they differ on whether Trump should be punished with removal from office.
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The Miami Herald reported commissioners have approved a resolution empowering the city's attorney to examine a 85033 state law that imposes fines and possible removal from office on municipal officials that try to pass local gun laws.
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But their reticence may well be changing in an age of vigilante, white nationalist terror—openly condoned and supported by an incumbent president who has suggested that his armed devotees won't stand for his removal from office.
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The House made only a glancing reference to the Mueller probe in the two articles of impeachment seeking Trump's removal from office over his alleged attempts to pressure Ukraine's leader into launching investigations into his political rivals.
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It calls for his removal from office due to an executive order he signed last year related to the move of the school reform office away from the state education department, a secretary of state spokesman said.
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And while most of the party's vulnerable incumbents and top challengers have criticized the president's conduct and supported the House's impeachment inquiry, they have stopped short of calling for his removal from office before the trial. Sen.
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In Gallup polling, a majority of Americans supported Nixon's removal from office only in the final survey before his resignation; by then his approval rating had fallen to about 24%, though it remained around 50% among Republicans.
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"It's an excellent read," Rounds said, adding that it sheds light on "the history of the terms treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors," which the Constitution spells out as actions that merit impeachment and removal from office.
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A Quinnipiac Poll found a firm majority of registered voters approving of the inquiry itself (22019 percent to 42 percent) but a slimmer plurality against Trump's removal from office (48 percent opposed, to 45 percent in favor).
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SB 4 aims to prohibit local communities from enacting policies that stop officers from asking about, arresting, and detaining people based on immigration status or face fines, jail time on criminal misdemeanor charges, and removal from office.
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According to an aide who spoke to reporters outside the court, Park is planning on staying at the presidential residence known as the Blue House on Friday despite her removal from office, but wouldn't be issuing a statement.
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The Constitution allows the Senate to hand down two punishments when it convicts an impeached federal official: removal from office and disqualification from holding "any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States" in the future.
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Mitt Romney of Utah announced that he would vote to convict Trump on the charge of abuse of power, making him the only Republican in the Senate to publicly side with Democrats calling for Trump's removal from office.
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Among many progressive voters, there were sky-high expectations that Mueller might find incontrovertible evidence of criminality on the part of Trump or his immediate family members, laying the ground work for potential impeachment and removal from office.
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Update: This post has been updated to reflect that Stewart criticized Charlottesville City Councilman Wes Bellamy and demanded his removal from office due to past tweets of Bellamy's that included homophobic slurs, anti-white comments and misogynistic rhetoric.
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I'm pretty sure I'd sell Trump-leaves-office-early stock (whether because of removal from office or other reasons) at even money (50 percent), and I'm pretty sure I'd buy it at 3-to-1 against (25 percent).
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His decision to abandon the Kurds sent his more hawkish Republican allies in Congress into paroxysms of anger at the same time the president needs a unified party to stave off removal from office in his impeachment inquiry.
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A Washington Post–Schar School poll released Tuesday showed a majority of Americans favor an impeachment inquiry, and a Politico–Morning Consult poll released Wednesday morning showed half of registered voters support Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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If we are to be, in the words of John Adams, "a government of laws, not of men," then there is no other option after today's testimony than the impeachment, conviction and removal from office of President Trump.
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"President Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States," the passage on page five of the articles of impeachment says.
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And although those protests failed to achieve their immediate goals — real universal suffrage and Mr. Leung's removal from office — they have spawned a bold separatist movement that has made headway in recent months, including in the local legislature.
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When the House declares him worthy of removal from office, however, the very flaws that got Trump to this point -- the absence of humility, lack of integrity and his self-absorption -- will keep him on a destructive path.
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Temer's office said the appointments were made during the 13 years of Workers Party rule that ended with Rousseff's removal from office last week, and the "irregularities" uncovered by the police had nothing to do with the current administration.
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Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said Wednesday that he will vote to convict President Donald Trump for abusing his power, making him the only Republican in the Senate to publicly side with Democrats calling for Trump's removal from office.
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Next to zero would be my bet -- especially given that the rejection of a Trump vice-presidential choice would elevate Pelosi to the presidency in the event of Trump's removal from office after an impeachment trial in the Senate.
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China's relations with the Soviet Union had grown increasingly tense, and Mao was worried about what the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 and Khrushchev's removal from office in 1964 meant for himself as China's leader.
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Washington (CNN)In a rare public address following his removal from office in March, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told graduating cadets at the Virginia Military Institute on Wednesday that respect for truth is paramount to American democracy.
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Sources with knowledge of the situation reported that Mohammed bin Nayef was under house arrest following his removal from office, but the Saudi official said Mohammed bin Nayef had received guests, including the king and the new crown prince.
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Mr. Trump has repeatedly stressed that he did nothing wrong in his dealings with Ukraine, but several Republican senators on Sunday stressed a more nuanced argument: The president's actions were inappropriate, but they didn't merit his removal from office.
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However, what all these analysts and talking heads seem to miss is that, at the end of the day, impeachment is a constitutional process with constitutional guidelines as to what warrants impeachment and removal from office and what doesn't.
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When the trial resumes on Thursday, the House managers are expected to use their second of three days to outline the constitutional framework for impeachment and why they believe Trump's alleged misconduct meets the threshold for removal from office.
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By doing so, they have seemingly sought to avoid inflaming the President's political base, raising expectations of the Democrats, and embarking on a resource-draining battle which at present would not likely conclude in the President's removal from office.
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Gerhardt, along with Harvard University law professor Noah Feldman and Stanford University law professor Pamela Karlan, argued that Trump's conduct far exceeds the bar set in the Constitution — high crimes and misdemeanors — to warrant impeachment and removal from office.
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Republicans are expected to paint Democrats' impeachment effort as a glorified policy disagreement with the president — an effort to oust a leader they simply disagree with, rather than one who has committed high crimes that warrant removal from office.
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"As she explained in her statement, @SenatorCollins considered the Articles presented and decided that the House did not meet its burden of showing that the President's conduct – however flawed – warranted the extreme step of immediate removal from office," Clark tweeted.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Michel Temer called a corruption charge filed against him by Brazil's top prosecutor a "fiction" on Tuesday, as the nation's political crisis deepened under the second president faced with possible removal from office in just over a year.
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With the threat of removal from office behind him, Trump is expected to bask in the glow of a strong economy and hammer Democrats for their efforts to take him down, even as supporters anticipate that Democrats will keep investigating him.
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While recent polls showed that more than 40 percent of Americans favored Trump's conviction and removal from office on charges that he tried to persuade Ukraine to interfere in the coming election, Trump received good news from another poll on Tuesday.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The ousted Philippine Supreme Court chief justice launched a blistering attack on President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, calling him a "self-styled savior who is willing to kill", after she lost an appeal against her removal from office.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate began the trial of suspended President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday after a lengthy impeachment process that has paralyzed the politics of Latin America's largest nation and is expected to culminate in her removal from office next week.
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Trump also said he had spoken with Rosenstein, who The New York Times reported last month had discussed wearing a wire to record Trump as part of a possible effort to seek his removal from office under the 25th Amendment.
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The public testimony before the House Intelligence Committee will be carried by major broadcast and cable television networks and is expected to be viewed by millions of people, as Democrats seek to make the case for Trump's removal from office.
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The testimony will be carried by major broadcast and cable networks and is expected to be viewed by millions, who will watch current and former officials from Trump's own administration begin to outline a case for his potential removal from office.
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The investigation is probing whether Trump misused the power of his office for personal political gain and, if so, whether that rises to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that merit impeachment and removal from office under the Constitution.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's Senate voted in the early hours of Wednesday to begin the last phase in the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff, the president who was suspended in May, setting the stage for her final removal from office.
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"—Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) September 23, 2019The former Massachusetts governor went on: "The penalty under the Constitution is removal from office, and that might look like a pretty good alternative for the president if he could work out a plea deal.
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In the same way that President Andrew Johnson's attacks on Reconstruction fueled the impeachment drive against him, the President's far right agenda is emboldening Democrats to consider voting for impeachment -- even if Senate Republicans will inevitably prevent his removal from office.
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According to a Morning Consult/POLITICO poll conducted just after senators were sworn in as jurors for the impeachment trial, a plurality of Americans said they supported Trump's removal from office, with 47 percent in favor and 45 percent opposed.
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Republicans and Democrats posed questions to both the impeachment managers who made the case for Trump's removal from office and the president's attorneys who rebutted the House's charges that Trump abused his power and obstructed Congress in the Ukraine saga.
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One by one, the seven House impeachment prosecutors seeking President Donald Trump's removal from office reconstructed a case against the president so dense — at times, head-scratchingly complex — that it was hard for senators new to the material to keep up.
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The Bidens, by contrast, know nothing and therefore have nothing to say about what Mr. Trump ordered, why he did it, or whether it constitutes a high crime or misdemeanor such that the president's removal from office is constitutionally justified.
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On Thursday, Mr. Nadler lectured extensively on the constitutional and historical standards for impeachment, setting the stage for the managers to methodically argue that Mr. Trump's actions toward Ukraine constituted an impeachable abuse of power that warrants his removal from office.
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Giuliani has pressed Trump to make him part of the team of lawyers who will argue the case against his removal from office on the Senate floor, a White House official and two sources close to the President told CNN.
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Taylor, who spoke to CNN days after the President was acquitted in his impeachment trial, declined to offer his thoughts on the outcome, saying it was up to voters to decide in November whether Trump's actions warranted his removal from office.
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During the House Judiciary Committee's hearings last month, they excerpted powerful moments from witness testimony, as well as the clips of Trump and Mulvaney, to punctuate their argument that the president's conduct toward Ukraine was impeachable and warranted removal from office.
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The former U.S. ally and the autocratic leader, fought against Islamic militancy and maintained peace between Egypt, Israel and Palestinians within his nearly 30-year rule, before 18 days of street protests in 2011 resulted in his removal from office.
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Though the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed both articles, Pelosi has so far withheld them from the Republican-controlled Senate, which is constitutionally mandated to conduct a trial determining whether to convict Trump and trigger his removal from office.
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Robert Ray: The answer to the question of what the Senate should do is precisely what is necessary -- and no more -- in order to determine whether the articles, in the first instance, are sufficient to warrant the President's removal from office.
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Greg Abbott signed a law banning so-called sanctuary cities and threatening officials with jail time and removal from office if they did not comply, they did more than enact a tough law that had failed in previous legislative sessions.
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The committee released the report on the eve of a public hearing in the House Judiciary Committee as the panel begins considering whether to draft articles of impeachment that could lead to a Senate trial and Mr. Trump's removal from office.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Kurdish militants claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a car bombing in Turkey's southeastern city of Van a day earlier and said it was partly a response to the removal from office of two dozen mayors from Kurdish-run municipalities.
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" The key question now, according to former Watergate assistant prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste and Kelly B. Kramer, is whether the evidence supports the constitutional standard for impeachment and removal from office, which mentions "bribery" along with "other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The 300-page report does not recommend specific articles of impeachment -- leaving those decisions to the Judiciary Committee -- but it paints a damning portrait of Trump's dealings with Ukraine and all but asserts that those actions warrant his removal from office.
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The 6900-page report does not recommend specific articles of impeachment — leaving those decisions to the Judiciary Committee — but it paints a damning portrait of Trump's dealings with Ukraine and all but asserts that those actions warrant his removal from office.
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The panel will set the terms of floor debate before what is expected to be a party-line vote to impeach President Donald Trump, just the third time in history the House will have recommended a president's removal from office.
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The report, a 169-page assessment of the case for Trump's removal from office, contends that Trump committed "multiple federal crimes" — ones that Democrats addressed under the broad umbrella of "abuse of power," the first article of impeachment against the president.
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WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders on Tuesday formally called for President Trump's removal from office, asserting that he "ignored and injured the interests of the nation" in two articles of impeachment that charged him with abusing his power and obstructing Congress.
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The 300-page report does not recommend specific articles of impeachment — leaving those decisions to the Judiciary Committee — but it paints a damning portrait of Trump's dealings with Ukraine and all but asserts that those actions warrant his removal from office.
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The House requires a simple majority vote to impeach a president, but removal from office requires a two-thirds vote after a trial in the Senate — a threshold that Democrats are certain to be well short of in the next Congress.
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As the Senate moved toward acquitting President Trump on Wednesday, even some Republicans stopped trying to defend his actions or dispute the evidence, focusing instead on the idea that his conduct did not deserve removal from office, especially in an election year.
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Kamala Harris of California, another 2020 contender, repeated calls for Congress to begin an inquiry into whether Trump should be impeached on Wednesday on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," but said that it would likely not lead to Trump's removal from office.
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He is there to act as a surrogate for the president and to show that CNN is still willing to hear from the president's defenders—that it is not, as the president often claims, solely fixated on bringing about his removal from office.
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Brennan was uniquely positioned to assist with that, including helping to shepherd the Russia fable right into the waiting maw of multiple investigations which have been used, just as intended, to undercut Trump and ultimately serve as grounds for his removal from office.
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Does Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, who is waging a cyberwar of aggression against American and European democracy, possess damaging information about President Trump that could destroy his presidency and lead to his removal from office if it is leaked or disclosed by Putin?
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Given that Mueller was unlikely to charge a sitting president with a crime, and the Republican majority in the Senate effectively immunizes the president from removal from office via impeachment, it wasn't reasonable to expect the report to destroy the Trump presidency.
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The president's complaint represents yet another indication of his eagerness for a captivating, media-minded showing by the squad of conservative attorneys arguing against his removal from office, headed up by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow.
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If the Intelligence Committee revealed a president using his power to pressure Ukraine to investigate a 2020 rival, it's up to the Judiciary Committee to show why such a transgression amounts to an "abuse of power" that demands his removal from office.
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The law, scheduled to take effect on Friday, blocks local limits on immigration enforcement, allows the police to question the immigration status of people they detain or arrest, and seeks to punish uncooperative officials with fines, jail time and removal from office.
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Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren — as well as Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Tammy Duckworth, and other women senators — who have advocated for Trump's impeachment and removal from office all along, and don't plan to stay silent now that he will remain in office.
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Dashing the hopes of Democrats who implored them to break party lines, moderate Senate Republicans held together and announced, one by one, that they would acquit Mr. Trump, contending that removal from office was an overly excessive punishment that would disenfranchise voters.
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From Boston Common to the French Quarter in New Orleans, a series of protests reverberated across the country on Tuesday evening to call for President Trump's removal from office, a prelude to momentous impeachment votes set for Wednesday in the House of Representatives.
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His arguments reflect the contention of a growing number of GOP senators, who are acknowledging that Trump may have leveraged US security aid for political reasons but assert that such conduct does not warrant removal from office or hearing from additional witnesses.
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One of the first Senate Democrats to publicly condemn Clinton's behavior -- although he did not vote for his removal from office -- was Joe Lieberman, and his independence earned him a spot on the Democratic ticket as Al Gore's running mate in 2000.
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RELATED: Full poll results The share who favor impeachment and removal from office now narrowly outpaces the share who say they don't feel that way -- a first in CNN polling -- although the two figures are within the poll's margin of sampling error.
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But even then, five House Democrats voted to impeach Clinton and while no Democratic senators backed his removal from office, a much larger number of Democrats in each chamber criticized his underlying behavior in the Monica Lewinsky scandal that triggered the crisis.
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Two-thirds of voters surveyed in the poll believe it is unacceptable for a sitting U.S. president to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political opponent, but only 44 percent said that conduct should lead to impeachment or removal from office.
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Related: Peruvian Man Details Sexual Abuse He Faced at 'Boot Camp' for Troubled Catholic Kids Under the new church laws announced by Pope Francis on Saturday, Catholic bishops who cover up for pedophile priests will be investigated and could face removal from office.
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While he did not directly call for Trump's removal from office, stating he would need to see the articles of impeachment before making that decision, his statements make Kasich one of the few high profile Republicans who have agreed with Democrats that Trump should impeached.
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Moreover, senators may well be able to decide that the only sanction, removal from office, and thus the reversal of the decision in the 2016 election, is so drastic an action that a "not guilty" verdict is warranted even though the charge is believed.
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Under this scenario, Trump still holds on to his true base (the roughly half of GOP primary voters who backed him in 2016) but becomes so unpopular with the public that he suffers mass defections from GOP senators leading to his removal from office.
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The probe focuses on whether Trump abused the power of his office in his attempt to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival, and if so, whether those actions meet the standard for "high crimes and misdemeanors" deserving of impeachment and, potentially, removal from office.
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An intelligence whistle-blower pointed to the call as evidence that the president had tried to enlist a foreign power to help him in the 2020 presidential election, and House Democrats started an impeachment inquiry into whether the president's conduct warranted his removal from office.
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Moreover, in neither case did the charges meet the constitutional standard for removal from office or reflect grave violations of the constitutional instruction that a president must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed"—the violations that underlay the Articles of Impeachment against Nixon.
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"We certainly need to continue the investigative work to determine are there other ways this president is compromised or are there other offenses that rise to the level of removal from office," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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Under that law, any local body that even attempts to enforce stricter gun laws than are on the state books could face $100,000 in fines, and that municipality's mayor could personally face $5,000 in fines as well as removal from office by the governor.
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After independent counsel Ken Starr issued his report in September 1998 outlining 11 possible grounds for Clinton's removal from office, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich authorized an impeachment inquiry and made a last-minute campaign push that fall to connect the scandal to the Democrats.
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Back-to-back Quinnipiac polls in late September — one conducted in the days leading up to Ms. Pelosi's announcement last week, then another taken just afterward — showed that support for Mr. Trump's ultimate removal from office jumped 10 points after the House opened its inquiry.
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Garcia highlighted the three ABCs that Trump has been accused of:Abusing his powerBetraying the countryCorrupting electionsGarcia also noted that senators from both sides of the aisle agree the president acted inappropriately, and that the question now is whether his behavior warrants removal from office.
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But now we're in a zone where the president can commit acts that would've been impeachable and led to removal from office in the past in plain sight, and people shrug it off and cast a side-eye at the person who's sounding the alarm.
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As the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump prepares to kick off in full force later Wednesday, a slim plurality of registered voters favor the president's conviction and removal from office, though overall support has dipped, according to the latest POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
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But that call — and the president's order to withhold congressionally-approved military aid to Ukraine — became the center of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry that has made Mr. Trump only the third president to face a trial in the Senate and potential removal from office.
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While the business community has come to accept Mr. Trump — one executive described the view by saying "life is relative" — Mr. Sonnenfeld noted that a poll he conducted three weeks ago found that 56 percent of C.E.O.s favored the president's impeachment and removal from office.
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There are plenty of reasons for this -- one is the high bar for removal from office, another is the incredibly short attention span of the political media and the average news consumer -- but there are several examples, of late, that might well boost Northam's optimism.
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President Donald Trump on Friday lashed out after the country's top evangelical Christian magazine called for his removal from office — appearing to suggest his eventual Democratic opponent in next year's general election will be a "nonbeliever" who threatens Americans' freedom of religion and gun rights.
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Back then, President Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided removal from office after his counsel argued that he hadn&apost committed any actual crimes — and in an interview on CNN&aposs "State of the Union" on Sunday, Dershowitz said Trump&aposs legal team would mirror that defense.
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" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also referenced the polling in a "Dear Colleague" letter Saturday night, noting that surveys had "shifted from 59/34 opposed to impeachment when the inquiry was officially announced to 49/47, not only for impeachment, but also removal from office.
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" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also referenced the polling in a "Dear Colleague" letter on Saturday night, noting that surveys had "shifted from 59/34 opposed to impeachment when the inquiry was officially announced to 49/47, not only for impeachment, but also removal from office.
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But in context, the move — which wasn't even certain to pass the House, let alone lead to Rosenstein's removal from office — was clearly part of an effort by President Trump's allies to attack the Justice Department and undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, which Rosenstein supervises.
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According to the Real Clear Politics national average, Americans now favor an impeachment inquiry by a comfortable margin of 85033 percent to 42 percent — and, ominously for the president, the number favoring removal from office is increasing, even among independents (RCP average: plus 2.5 percent in favor).
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The House impeachment probe focuses on whether Trump abused the power of his office in his attempt to pressure Ukraine for personal political gain, and if so, whether those actions meet the standard for "high crimes and misdemeanors" deserving of impeachment and, potentially, removal from office.
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The House impeachment probe focuses on whether Trump abused the power of his office in his attempt to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival, and if so, whether those actions meet the standard for "high crimes and misdemeanors" deserving of impeachment and, potentially, removal from office.
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The petition calls for his removal from office due to an executive order he signed last year related to the move of the school reform office away from the state education department and into the department of technology management and budget, a secretary of state spokesman said.
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The Republican members of Congress who voted to open an impeachment inquiry into Nixon's conduct didn't necessarily want it to end in his removal from office; even up until his resignation, it was an open question whether there were enough votes in the Senate to remove him.
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Of course, the product of further congressional investigation and even grand jury involvement could be enough information — as if there isn't enough already — to confront President Trump with the same prospect that confronted Nixon, found in Article II itself: Threat of impeachment and removal from office.
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In addition to the staffing moves, Need to Impeach is also slated to release a slew of digital ads in each district urging people to sign onto the group's petition calling for Trump's removal from office and putting pressure on lawmakers to take up impeachment proceedings.
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On the second day of their arguments for Trump's removal from office, Democratic House of Representatives members argued that Biden did nothing wrong and was only carrying out official U.S. policy when he pressured Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, Victor Shokin, because of corruption concerns.
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House Democrats seeking Trump's removal from office have begin their oral arguments to make the case that Trump abused his power by withholding military aid to Ukraine to pressure the country's leaders to open investigations into his rivals that would benefit him in the 2020 election.
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While Mr. Biden stopped short of calling for Mr. Trump's removal from office, his new aggressiveness marked an acknowledgment that he must do more to both confront a president who is attacking him daily and to halt his slide in the polls in the Democratic primary.
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The House Judiciary Committee itself at least concedes, in a report authored by the majority staff, that while criminality and impeachment are separate paths, "commission of crimes may strengthen a case for removal [from office]" and that "the criminal law is not irrelevant" for purposes of impeachment.
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While Johnson would escape removal from office by a single vote in the Senate, his impeachment reflected the tumult of reconstruction after the Civil War, the future of civil rights for emancipated slaves, and the authority of the presidency versus Congress following the expansion of executive power.
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Coordinating over the past month, the White House counsel's office and the president's team of private lawyers have prepared a detailed legal brief pushing back against last month's House-passed impeachment articles that seek Trump's removal from office for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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After more than a month of closed-door depositions and two weeks of public hearings, the process will shift next week to the House Judiciary Committee, which is charged with the crucial decision of whether the investigation has turned up evidence meriting Trump's removal from office.
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The nearly party-line vote to recommend Trump's removal from office and label him a national security threat was met by a defiant president who vowed to prevail in a Senate trial overseen by his Republican allies — but whose presidency will be forever blemished by an impeachment.
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Fourth: The validity of a president's self-pardon, which has never been attempted in our history, could not be tested in the courts until after the president leaves office, either by finishing his full term of office or by removal from office through impeachment and conviction.
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"While we can debate the president's judgment when it comes to his dealings with Ukraine, or even conclude that his actions were inappropriate, the House's vague and overreaching impeachment charges do not meet the high bar set by the founders for removal from office," said Senator John Thune.
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Rooney, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee at the center of the inquiry, said Friday that he had not yet come to a conclusion on whether the President committed a crime that compels his removal from office, a striking view among House Republicans defensive of Trump.
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Dale L. Bumpers, a liberal governor and four-term Democratic senator from Arkansas who came out of retirement in 1999 to make a passionate closing argument defending President Bill Clinton against removal from office in a Senate trial, died on Friday at his home in Little Rock, Ark.
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Billionaire Tom Steyer, who has pumped millions of dollars of his own money into a campaign calling for Trump's removal from office, told Reuters that lawmakers in the Democratic-led House of Representatives should begin the process of impeaching Trump, a Republican, based on the evidence amassed by Mueller.
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I think that the attorney general and her team will be able to hit a grand slam in the courts in a lot of these investigations, but there will certainly be a segment of progressives that won't be satisfied with anything other than removal from office,' he said.
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WASHINGTON — When calls for his removal from office reverberated through the capital a decade ago, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert struggled to explain why he had not aggressively investigated allegations that a Florida lawmaker had sent flirtatious messages to a teenage boy who had served as a House page.
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The House of Representatives voted to impeach Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice, but the Senate acquitted him relatively easily — the president was popular, the impeachment effort was viewed as partisan, and enough senators concluded the crimes weren't serious enough to warrant the president's removal from office.
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If Trump, as president, were to sacrifice the interests of the United States in order to benefit his businesses or his family, he would be liable to impeachment and removal from office for "bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution.
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Trump's July telephone call is at the heart of the congressional inquiry into whether he misused the power of his office for personal political gain and, if so, whether that rises to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that merit impeachment and removal from office under the Constitution.
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The historic meaning of the words "high crimes and misdemeanors," the writings of the founders and my own reasoned judgment convince me that a president can indeed commit acts against the public trust that are so egregious that while they're not statutory crimes, they would demand removal from office.
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Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian for NBC News, said the only parallel in modern times is the end of the presidency of Richard Nixon, whose top aides worried about what he might do as he faced the imminent prospect of removal from office in the summer of 1974.
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The data follows the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the first woman nominated as the presidential candidate of a major party in the United States, and the removal from office of two presidents in two traditionally patriarchal societies: Park Geun-hye in South Korea and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil.
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But her impeachment was a highly politicized operation, and support for her removal from office was driven in large part by a colossal bribery scandal that funneled funds from the Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras to the three left-leaning parties that formed the government's ruling coalition.
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It remains reasonable to assume that shift, driven mostly by Democrats, was not the product of Democrats immediately deciding for the first time last fall that Trump deserved removal from office, but of loyal Democrats receiving the word from party leadership that impeachment was the right move, substantively and strategically.
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The poll, which surveyed 1,003 registered voters between October 6 and October 8, finds that a majority of voters (51 percent) support Trump's impeachment and removal from office — a significant jump from the last time Fox News polled the question in July, when only 42 percent of respondents supported removing Trump.
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James McLaughlin, executive director of the Texas Police Chiefs Association, complained to NBC about the punitive measures police could face under S.B. 4 — fines, jail time, civil penalties and the prospect of removal from office — that would force police to act as immigration agents even in innocuous encounters with civilians.
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Encouraged by the jingoistic state-run media, Russian society seems to applaud war policies that would subject a Western leader to fierce inquiries or removal from office by a disapproving electorate (the British prime minister Tony Blair's fate after his acquiescence in the American-led Iraq war is one example).
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The law, known as Senate Bill 4 or S.B. 4, prohibits cities and counties from adopting policies that limit immigration enforcement, allows police officers to question the immigration status of anyone they detain or arrest and threatens officials who violate the law with fines, jail time and removal from office.
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One of the president's central arguments against his impeachment and removal from office has been the contention that the 2020 election should serve as a check on Trump's power, and that House Democrats are seeking to remove Trump from office because they're worried that Trump will win re-election in 2020.
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Reps. Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler and the other Democrats prosecuting the case against President Donald Trump spent the day focused on two main goals — outlining why Trump's Ukraine dealings met the constitutional threshold for removal from office and preempting the arguments sure to be made by the president's defense team.
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Over the past three days, House Democrats led by Schiff laid out in great detail their case for Trump's removal from office, presenting evidence they argue clearly supports their allegation that Trump abused the power of his office to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations for his own personal and political benefit.
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You probably think that I'm talking about Trump's attempt to pressure Ukraine into producing political dirt on Joe Biden by withholding aid, and the subsequent cover-up — you know, the stuff for which he has been impeached (and that half the country believes should lead to his removal from office).
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But when Mr. Trump announced this week on Twitter that he planned to speak in front of the group, he made it clear he was intent on solidifying his support with socially conservative voters on the day House Democrats were making their final formal argument for his removal from office.
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"The majority of the conference thinks removal from office is wrong, and is also worried that the White House's team is going to give a bulls*** 'perfect call' defense," a senior Republican aide said on Friday, referring to Trump's rote defense of his July 25 phone conversation with Ukraine's President.
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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.
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If the 47 Democratic Caucus members stay united and vote to remove Trump from office, the president needs the support of as many of the 53 Senate Republicans as possible, both to avoid his removal from office and to keep the party from splintering ahead of his 2020 re-election bid.
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On Thursday, Mr. Nadler drew on quotes from Alexander Hamilton; from George Washington's farewell address; and from a 1792 letter to Thomas Jefferson from John Adams that warned of "foreign intrigue and influence" in arguing that Mr. Trump warranted impeachment and removal from office — regardless of whether he committed a crime.
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With Mr. Clinton, every significant possible witness had been interviewed by the investigators of the independent counsel Ken Starr before Congress took up the issue, and the question before the Senate was really about interpreting the facts and deciding whether they added up to high crimes worthy of removal from office.
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Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents under age 251, support for impeaching Trump and removing him from office has risen from 21% in May to 1% now, while views among older Republicans and Republican leaners have held about even with just 224% in favor of impeachment and removal from office.
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""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.
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Perhaps most notably, a Fox News survey conducted between October 6 and 8 found a majority of voters (51 percent) support his impeachment and removal from office — a significant jump from the last time Fox News polled the question in July, when only 42 percent of respondents supported removing Trump.
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Comparing the Vacancies Reform Act to the text of other federal laws — the Presidential Succession Act applies to cases of "death, resignation, removal from office, (or) inability or failure to qualify" for instance — might lead a judge to believe that the Vacancies Reform Act deliberately excluded replacements for fired officials.
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"I do not believe that the House has met its burden of showing that the president's conduct, however flawed, warrants the extreme step of immediate removal from office, nor does the record support the assertion by the House managers that the president must not remain in office one moment longer," Collins said. Sen.
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Gwen MooreGwen Sophia MooreHouse Democrat offers bill to let students with pot conviction retain federal aid House approves bill raising minimum wage to per hour Here are the 95 Democrats who voted to support impeachment MORE (D-Wis.) and Jackie Spier (D-Calif.) — have called this week for his removal from office.
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Read more " _____ • Doug Henwood, Steve Phillips, Christopher D. Cook and Medea Benjamin in The Nation: "Would his removal from office be a cure worse than the disease, or is the incumbent president such an immediate threat to life on Earth that getting him out of the White House is worth any political cost?
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While some lamented the partisan tenor of the proceeding, which they said threw the fairness of the trial into doubt, others said their decisions were based on a stronger conviction: Even if the president did everything the House managers described, his actions and alleged wrongdoing still did not justify his removal from office.
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A majority of respondents in a new poll supports the impeachment inquiry into President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE while almost half back his removal from office.
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With impeachment, campaign officials and White House allies believe Trump has gained a formidable advantage in his bid for reelection: one that energizes his core supporters, places a segment of independent voters at odds with his opponents and potentially imperils swing-state Democrats whose constituents adamantly oppose his early removal from office.
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If a president is found, after an investigation in the House and a trial in the Senate, to have engaged in conduct warranting his removal from office, then it should not matter when that conduct occurred, particularly when, as in the case of the president, his actions did threaten the integrity of the next election.
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The president hit a number of familiar characters in a speech that sounded at times like a redux of his comments in the wake of his post-Mueller victory lap last spring or his stump speech at campaign rallies, only occasionally addressing the events that brought him to the brink of removal from office.
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But the decision comes a day after an opposition lawmaker accused Lee Young-hoon's father-in-law of being a financial sponsor for Choi Soon-sil, a confidant of former president Park Geun-hye and a central figure in the graft scandal that led to Park's removal from office and the Samsung chief's indictment.
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And while it is certainly true that there are people who would be upset by his removal from office, the far greater risk lies in allowing this president, with this explicitly illegal, immoral and unjust track record of abusing the power of his office for his personal electoral benefit, to participate in future elections.
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Now, the question becomes what else the new documents and iPhone data might reveal about his ties to high-ranking figures in Trump's Washington, and about his role assisting in Giuliani's search for damaging information about Biden in Ukraine — topics of keen interest to Democrats in Congress who support Trump's impeachment and removal from office.
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Washington (CNN)Two prominent progressives are squabbling over how to respond to calls to impeach President Donald Trump, a display of the larger rift between two factions within the Democratic Party: those calling for Trump's immediate removal from office and those warning of harsh political consequences for Democrats if they attempt to do so.
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Over the allotted three days of presentation — and another day spent unsuccessfully pushing for subpoenas for additional documents and witnesses — the seven lawmakers argued that Mr. Trump's pressure campaign against Ukraine warranted his removal from office, pointing to what they said was a dangerous pattern of putting his own interests above those of the country.
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The best constitutional answer seems to be that the president can remove (or direct) officers at any time, and it is then up to Congress to decide whether the removal is so inconsistent with the president's general duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed that it warrants his own removal from office.
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" Bowman: If the Senate were to vote to convict Mr. Trump, it could then (in modern practice) take a second vote to disqualify him, pursuant to Art I, Sec 3: "Judgment 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.
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Just since Pelosi announced the inquiry, Trump has floated arresting the lead House investigator for treason, suggested that any official who spoke to the whistleblower whose account triggered the crisis might be executed as a "spy" and favorably retweeted a conservative evangelical minister who predicted that Trump's removal from office could provoke a division like the Civil War.
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A Democratic member of the House warned Tuesday that any move by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE to exit NATO would be grounds for removal from office. Rep.
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The editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, an evangelical magazine that has been publishing since 1956, on Friday defended writing an editorial that calls for President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 85033 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 MORE's removal from office.
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If not remedied by his conviction in the Senate and removal from office, President Trump's abuse of his office and obstruction of Congress will permanently alter the balance of power among our branches of government, inviting future presidents to operate as if they too are also beyond the reach of accountability, congressional oversight, and the law.
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Few of them could have guessed that rather than the establishment foiling Trump, his slippery style and overwhelming blizzard of lies would so fully alter political and media culture that by the end of the decade, members of the G.O.P. would be embracing and echoing his conspiracy theories as a way to forestall his removal from office.
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"If not remedied by his conviction in the Senate and removal from office, President Trump's abuse of his office and obstruction of Congress will permanently alter the balance of power among our branches of government, inviting future presidents to operate as if they too are also beyond the reach of accountability, congressional oversight and the law," Schiff said.
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats pressed forward on Monday with the next phase of their impeachment inquiry, putting the final touches on an Intelligence Committee report expected to form the basis of their case that President Trump's effort to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations of his political rivals was an abuse of power that warrants his removal from office.
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Lamar AlexanderAndrew (Lamar) Lamar AlexanderWhat the impeachment vote looked like from inside the chamber Romney shocks GOP with vote to convict Senate acquits Trump, ending impeachment saga MORE (R-Tenn.), seen as the swing vote on the issue, said late Thursday that while Trump's conduct was "inappropriate," it does not warrant removal from office and therefore he would not support calling new witnesses.
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Sen. Marco RubioMarco Antonio RubioGiuliani: Trump should 'absolutely, 100 percent' keep investigating Biden US lawmakers push WHO to recognize Taiwan as independent state as coronavirus outbreak continues Trump set to confront his impeachment foes MORE (R-Fla.) argued Friday that impeachable actions don't always mean a president should be convicted, saying lawmakers must also weigh the impact of removal from office.
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So even though mayors like Philip Stoddard of South Miami would like to see a higher minimum age for gun purchase, red-flag laws to allow protection orders, elimination of loopholes, and background checks for all sales and transfer of assault weapons, if he were to enact those measures in his municipality, he would risk fines and even removal from office.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's removal from office, either by impeachment or through the voters, would not endanger America's economy or trend of economic growth, a top official at Barclays said Thursday.
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Schiff said lawmakers should await the final findings of both congressional investigations and special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election before determining whether certain crimes rise to the level of removal from office.
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The streets of Caracas exploded in protest, and within a few days, the Carmona government collapsed and Chávez was back in power—a deep embarrassment to the George W. Bush regime, which had its own vulnerabilities on the subject of electoral legitimacy, and whose assistant secretary of state Otto Reich had met with coup leaders and endorsed Chávez's removal from office.
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For this reason, evaluation of the president's statements — in tweets, in phone conversations, at press gaggles, and the like — should turn not on whether the precise elements of a federal crime like witness tampering have been met, but rather on whether the statements constitute, or contribute to, abuses of the public trust that justify the president's impeachment and removal from office.
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In fact, as executive assistant to President Richard Nixon's attorney general, Elliot Richardson, I can speak to the circumstances that delivered that first opinion: The principal purpose of the 1973 Watergate-era legal opinion — which concluded that a sitting president cannot be indicted — was to aid in removal from office of a criminally tainted vice president, who, the memo concluded, could be indicted.
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Although Mr. Mueller operated under different rules from Leon Jaworski, who investigated President Richard Nixon, and Kenneth Starr, who investigated President Bill Clinton, he ultimately reached the same judgment as they did: that Congress, a body composed of elected representatives, is better placed than a prosecutor to determine whether to initiate proceedings that could result in an official's removal from office.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Veterans group backs lawsuits to halt Trump's use of military funding for border wall Schiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails MORE said on Thursday that Fox News "doesn't deliver for US anymore" after the network's latest poll showed growing support for his impeachment and removal from office.
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Mr. Strange, who was appointed early this year to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, will face off in August against a slate of Republicans, including Mr. Brooks and Roy S. Moore, the former chief justice of the State Supreme Court, whose refusal to remove a Ten Commandments display from the court grounds resulted in his removal from office.
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Though the outcome of Trump's trial has appeared preordained for weeks — conviction and removal from office would require an unrealistic 20 Republican defections— potential witnesses and new evidence released by House Democrats last Tuesday could entangle the vice president in a mess he has deliberately tried to sidestep as he considers a White House bid of his own in 2024.
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Each senator can uphold his or her constitutional duty and vote in the coming weeks, as they should have voted yesterday, to ensure that they have the information they need to decide whether the president solicited a foreign power's assistance in his re-election and tried to prevent Congress from investigating that conduct, and whether that conduct necessitates his removal from office.
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Removal from office and disqualification from holding other offices or profiting from the US. So if, and that's such a huge if right now, Trump were convicted and removed, he'd be barred from running for a second term, which would be total chaos for the Republican party, as it has to figure out how to promote now president Pence in the 2020 election.
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A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released late Tuesday afternoon showed 55 percent of Americans supporting either an impeachment inquiry or President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE's all-out removal from office.
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Prior to Trump, the impeachment provisions of the Constitution were initiated against three other presidents: Andrew Johnson, whose case fell one vote short of conviction in the Senate; Nixon, whose proceeding never came to a vote; and Bill Clinton, whose case failed to reach even a majority in the Senate, let alone the two thirds needed for removal from office.
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Regardless of whether you think Trump's attempts to leverage Ukrainian diplomacy into political favors for his campaign rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor that warrants his removal from office, Trump's attacks on a teenage climate activist and promotion of his own business say something about the character of the man who currently holds the highest office in the land.
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Christianity Today editor-in-chief Mark Galli said on Sunday that his evangelical magazine has seen a surge in new subscriptions since it published his scathing editorial calling for President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 7 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 MORE's removal from office.
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However, it leaves the door open for prosecution of a president after he or she leaves office: 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.
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Just one month after arguing on a united front for President TrumpDonald John TrumpAs Biden surges, GOP Ukraine probe moves to the forefront Republicans, rooting for Sanders, see Biden wins as setback Trump says Biden Ukraine dealings will be a 'major' campaign issue MORE's removal from office, three former House impeachment managers are locked in a fierce battle over a controversial government surveillance bill. Rep.
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House Democrats get their final shot on Friday to make their case to the Senate and the American public that President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats outraged over White House lawyer's claim that some foreign involvement in elections is acceptable Senators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session White House announces task force to monitor coronavirus MORE's actions warrant conviction and removal from office.
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PH: Wherefore president Trump by such conduct has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the Constitution if allowed to remain in office and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance, and the rule of law, president Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
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While the three Justices agreed that the Senate had done all it was constitutionally required to do during Judge Nixon's impeachment trial — namely, appoint a committee of senators to hear the evidence against Nixon and later report to the Senate as a whole for a vote on his removal from office — they made clear that "arbitrary" impeachment processes would be subject to judicial review.
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In a poll that drew a typically angry and absurd rebuke from President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Veterans group backs lawsuits to halt Trump's use of military funding for border wall Schiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails MORE, Fox News found 2628 percent supporting his impeachment and removal from office — a 28503-point increase since July.
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The case came with a more subdued presentation: "House Democrats charged with prosecuting the impeachment case against [Trump] scaled back their fiery language following a rare scolding from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., as they began laying out their case for Trump's removal from office for pressuring Ukraine to help him win reelection," our colleagues Seung Min Kim, Elise Viebeck and Colby Itkowitz report.
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Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said Monday that it's "vital" that President TrumpDonald John TrumpRepublican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial Democratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump attacks Schumer at fiery rally in Michigan MORE is impeached, but she would not go so far as to support his removal from office.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 85033 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 MORE's reelection campaign announced that it will launch an "Evangelicals for Trump" coalition in the new year after Christianity Today, a flagship evangelical magazine, released a scathing editorial calling for the president's removal from office.
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Reagan no doubt would wonder, even if Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSchiff: Bolton 'refused' to submit affidavit on Trump's involvement in Ukraine controversy Yang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' MORE did that of which he was accused, whether removal from office — the death penalty in politics — was warranted, especially in an election year.
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" Further, he believes the U.S. intelligence community is, in fact, in a bitter war with Trump, one that could end with his removal from office: "Behind closed doors, plenty of American intelligence experts believe that President Trump is the pawn of the Kremlin, wittingly or not, and assess that it's only a matter of time before unseemly Moscow ties are exposed and the White House enters unsurvivable political crisis.
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" The closest the Constitution comes to addressing the issue is in this passage, from Article I, Section 3: "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.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpPence: Intelligence shows Iran directing militias not to attack U.S. targets Mnuchin aims to wait until end of 2628 to disclose Secret Service costs for Trump's travel: report Pressure building on Pelosi over articles of impeachment MORE will spend Friday evening in Miami rallying a group of evangelical supporters, just weeks after a leading evangelical magazine issued a bruising editorial calling for his impeachment and removal from office.
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If the Department of Justice guidance against indicting a sitting president holds, then congressional oversight — and possible impeachment — are the primary mechanisms available for ascertaining whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE committed serious wrongdoing, criminal or otherwise, that would warrant his removal from office.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats outraged over White House lawyer's claim that some foreign involvement in elections is acceptable Senators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session White House announces task force to monitor coronavirus MORE's lawyers began their opening arguments in the impeachment trial on Saturday, accusing Democrats of asking senators to "tear up" the ballots of the upcoming election while having "no evidence" to support the president's removal from office.
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House Democrats launched their final round of arguments in President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats outraged over White House lawyer's claim that some foreign involvement in elections is acceptable Senators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session White House announces task force to monitor coronavirus MORE's impeachment trial on Friday, shifting their focus to the president's blanket stonewalling of Congress's inquiry into his Ukrainian affairs as another basis for his removal from office.
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On the divisive question of President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPence: Intelligence shows Iran directing militias not to attack U.S. targets Mnuchin aims to wait until end of 2020 to disclose Secret Service costs for Trump's travel: report Pressure building on Pelosi over articles of impeachment MORE's Senate trial and whether it should or shouldn't lead to his removal from office, it is important to remember something we risk forgetting: the oaths that senators take.
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Billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer sent a letter to mayors and governors urging them to publicize their stances on impeaching President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and call on federal lawmakers to support his removal from office.
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House Democrats plowing ahead with their impeachment investigation will enter the twilight phase this week, when lawmakers begin to examine the most crucial question facing them to date: Do President TrumpDonald John TrumpStates slashed 4,400 environmental agency jobs in past decade: study Biden hammers Trump over video of world leaders mocking him Iran building hidden arsenal of short-range ballistic missiles in Iraq: report MORE's dealings with Ukraine warrant his removal from office?
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House lawmakers conducting the impeachment investigation into President TrumpDonald John TrumpStates slashed 4,400 environmental agency jobs in past decade: study Biden hammers Trump over video of world leaders mocking him Iran building hidden arsenal of short-range ballistic missiles in Iraq: report MORE heard clashing testimony Wednesday from a quartet of acclaimed legal scholars who sparred for hours over the gravity of the president's conduct regarding Ukraine — and whether it warrants his removal from office.
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" Thus, wrote Hamilton, "It is evident from these considerations, that the plurality of the Executive tends to deprive the people of the two greatest securities they can have for the faithful exercise of any delegated power, first, the restraints of public opinion," and "secondly, the opportunity of discovering with facility and clearness the misconduct of the persons they trust, in order either to (effect) their removal from office or their actual punishment in cases which admit of it.
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During the prosectutors' opening presentations Wednesday, lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff started with a Hamilton quote raising concerns in a letter to Washington about a future chief executive "unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits … " Democrats leaned on Hamilton to argue that the Founding Fathers gave future lawmakers wide discretion when deciding whether a president's conduct merited the landmark punishment of removal from office.
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Tina SmithTina Flint SmithHere are the Senate Democrats backing a Trump impeachment inquiry over Ukraine call Senate Democrats hesitant to go all-in on impeachment probe GOP Senate candidate said Republicans have 'dual loyalties' to Israel MORE (Minn.) Smith struck a cautious note in her endorsement of an impeachment inquiry Tuesday, noting in a statement that impeachment is not the same as removal from office, which would meet a dead end in the GOP-controlled Senate.
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Fox News analyst Andrew NapolitanoAndrew Peter NapolitanoNapolitano says bringing up new charges would be 'mistrial' if impeachment were in criminal court Fox's Napolitano: There is 'ample and uncontradicted' evidence supporting Trump's removal from office Fox News legal analyst: There's 'undisputed evidence' Trump abused his power MORE argued Thursday it would be a "mistrial" for House managers to bring up crimes the president is not charged with in a criminal trial, though he acknowledged doing so in the impeachment trial is another matter.
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Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyTrump, GOP seek way forward on coronavirus Why North Carolina is the state to watch this November GOP approval rises, Democrats fall post-impeachment in Gallup poll MORE (R-Utah) — who supported Trump's removal from office on the impeachment charge he abused his power by asking Ukraine to pursue an investigation into the Bidens last year — told reporters this week that it looked "political," before ultimately agreeing to support a subpoena for a former consultant linked to Burisma Holdings.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpAs Biden surges, GOP Ukraine probe moves to the forefront Republicans, rooting for Sanders, see Biden wins as setback Trump says Biden Ukraine dealings will be a 'major' campaign issue MORE, upon entering the chamber, strutted down the center aisle surrounded on one side by adoring chanters called Republican members of the House of Representatives, and on the other side by the vociferous promoters of his impeachment and removal from office called Democratic members of the House of Representatives.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpMnuchin knocks Greta Thunberg's activism: Study economics and then 'come back' to us The Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' What to watch for on Day 3 of Senate impeachment trial MORE through his legal advocates will present a sweeping defense against removal from office this week, arguing he did not abuse the powers of his office, and even if some senators believe he did, abuse of power is not impeachable under the Constitution.
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Given the near-daily revelations about the underpinnings of the various investigations into President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and his inner circle, those checks and balances weren't just ignored — they were thrown permanently out the window in the name of securing his election defeat or later removal from office.
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The House Judiciary Committee kicked off a new phase of the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday with a hearing featuring scholars to debate whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 9003 MORE's actions concerning Ukraine warrant his removal from office as lawmakers debate what articles of impeachment to include in a potential House floor vote.
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