There is also a High Court of Impeachment for criminal charges ( for an offence in office ) against the President of the Republic, the justices of the supreme courts, members of the Council of State, the Chancellor of Justice and the Ombudsman of Parliament.

Impeachment does not necessarily result in removal from office ; it is only a legal statement of charges, parallel to an indictment in criminal law.

An example of this is The Impeachment of Bill Clinton in book 2 of the trilogy.

* The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln ( 2012 ) is a legal drama turned thriller whose plot revolves around the speculation of what would have happened had Abraham Lincoln survived his assassination and gone on to be impeached for exceeding his constitutional authority during the American Civil war.

Impeachment is a constitutional power of the legislature under Article IX of the Connecticut Constitution, and therefore the legislature can compel the testimony of the governor in conjunction with impeachment proceedings.

Impeachment was a procedure distinct from the aforementioned procedure of trial in the House of Lords, though the House of Lords is the court in both cases.

He is also the step-brother of attorney Solomon Wisenberg who is best known for being the deputy of Ken Starr during the Impeachment of Bill Clinton and questioned the president during the grand jury interview.

Ross is best known for casting the decisive vote which acquitted Andrew Johnson during his 1868 Presidential Impeachment trial.

Impeachment of Man is a book by Savitri Devi.

Impeachment in the United States is an expressed power of the legislature that allows for formal charges against a civil officer of government for crimes committed in office.

Impeachment is analogous to indictment in regular court proceedings, while trial by the other house is analogous to the trial before judge and jury in regular courts.

In addition to appeals from the trial courts, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has jurisdiction over all lower courts, excluding the Oklahoma Court on the Judiciary, and the Oklahoma Senate, when that body is sitting as a Court of Impeachment.

Impeachment of Justices and Judges is also legalized, and their inabiling of powers until acquitted.

A judicial process similar to Impeachment acquitted him of all personal moral responsibility in the matter but he has never been absolved by public opinion.

In the Washington Post reprinting of the Judiciary Committee's review of Impeachment in 1974, the review states, "" High Crimes and Misdemeanors " has traditionally been considered a " term of art ", like such other constitutional phrases as " levying war " and " due process.

Impeachment and the process by which impeachment occurs are discussed:

The House of Commons decides on " Articles of Impeachment ," which are then brought before the House of Lords.

Wesley E. Disney, a House Representative representining Tulsa, acted as the prosecutor in the Oklahoma Senate in its function as the Court of Impeachment, which was presided over by the Chief Justice of Oklahoma.

There, the Oklahoma House of Representatives raised charges, which the Oklahoma Senate as the Court of Impeachment agreed to, against Governor Johnston and many members of his administration.

The resolution was referred to the Rules Committee and, at the same time, a timeframe was established which called for the investigation to end in November 2009 ; the Judicial Impeachment Task Force would decide by the end of the year if impeachment would be recommended to the Judiciary Committee.

She wrote The Impeachment of Man in 1959 in India in which she declared her views on animals rights and nature.

He was on the committee which managed the Impeachment of Warren Hastings ; was made a privy councillor in 1831 ; and died in London in July 1834.

He was the ninth federal official on whom Articles of Impeachment were served, and only the third to be convicted and removed from office.

He was the eleventh federal official to be served with Articles of Impeachment and was ultimately acquitted of these charges.

* January 17 – Impeachment proceedings against Philippine President Joseph Estrada, accused of playing Jueteng, end preeminently and trigger the second EDSA People Power Revolution or People Power II.

Topics covered include Jocelyn Elders, the Waco Siege, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Crime Bill of 1996, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, the 1993 bombing of Iraq, Operation Gothic Serpent, the Rwandan Genocide, the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the 1998 bombing of Afghanistan and Sudan, the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, Stand for Children, Jesse Jackson, the Million Man March, Mumia Abu-Jamal, John Sweeney, the Service Employees International Union, the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, the Worker Rights Consortium, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Spare Change News, the North American Street Newspaper Association, the National Coalition for the Homeless, anti-globalization, and WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity.

Impeachment proceedings were based on allegations that Clinton had lied about his relationship with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky in a sworn deposition in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

* Lanoue, David J. and Craig F. Emmert ; " Voting in the Glare of the Spotlight: Representatives ' Votes on the Impeachment of President Clinton " Polity, Vol.

Impeachment can be pronounced by the High Court, a special court convened from both houses of Parliament on the proposal of either House, should the president have failed to discharge his duties in a way that evidently precludes the continuation of his term.

* Air Strike on Iran Could ‘ Merit the Impeachment of the President ’, April 26, 2006.

In 1787, the most dramatic political event of the decade came to pass in the form of the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, the Governor of Bengal until 1785, on charges of corruption and extortion.

* Jordan's Statement on the Articles of Impeachment During the Nixon Impeachment Hearings in Text and Audio from AmericanRhetoric. com

It was during his service in the House, in August 1974, that Sarbanes was selected by his Democratic colleagues on the House Watergate Committee to introduce the first Article of Impeachment, for obstruction of justice, against President Richard Nixon.

In the Resolution on Impeachment of the President, Hyde wrote:

Impeachment demands filled the Oklahoma State Capitol and the leaders of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and Oklahoma Senate acted by calling a special session on October 2.

** Task Force on Judicial Impeachment

Conyers voted on the Articles of Impeachment against Nixon in July 1974.

* Impeachment Trial Committee on the Articles against Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr.

Black was also briefly Counsel for President Johnson in his trial on his Article of Impeachment before the United States Senate, and for William W. Belknap, United States Secretary of War from 1869 to 1876, who in 1876 was impeached on a charge of corruption ; he also represented Samuel J. Tilden during the contest for the presidency between Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes.

The trial of Sulzer before the Impeachment Court began in Albany on September 18.

The court convicted Sulzer on three of the Articles of Impeachment on the afternoon of October 16, finding him guilty of filing a false report with the Secretary of State concerning his campaign contributions, committing perjury, and advising another person to commit perjury before an Assembly committee.

He advised the Democrats on the Senate Government Affairs Committee during the 1997 hearings on the Clinton re-election campaign ’ s fundraising practices, and worked with House Judiciary Committee Democrats during the 1998 Impeachment hearings.

Finland's current constitutional laws are: the Constitution Act of Finland ( 2000 ); the Parliament Act ( 1995 ); the Procedure of Parliament ( 2000 ) and the Act on the High Court of Impeachment ( 1995 ).