impeachment

[ UK /ɪmpˈiːt‍ʃmənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpitʃmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office
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How To Use impeachment In A Sentence

  • There is complete security of tenure for the judges, with Supreme Court and High Court judges being removable only through impeachment.
  • Congressional Democrats have resisted impeachment considerations, recalling the acrimonious division when a Republican Congress impeached Bill Clinton in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Bush's Disapproval Hits Rare Heights; Only Nixon and Truman Scored Worse
  • In the Watergate scandal, obstruction of justice was number one in the articles of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee.
  • On Monday, senators took their oaths as jurors before the Supreme Court's chief justice for Brown's impeachment trial.
  • But the Constitution also provides for impeachment, and some pushback against judicial power is a good thing.
  • It did not really occur to them that a speaker might rise to become the ultimate beneficiary on the impeachment of the governor and his deputy.
  • They escaped impeachment only by making a very large loan to the Parliament at a crucial stage.
  • And that is that the president has continued -- and of course, Al Gore was part of the team -- continued to outdistance them, to outmove them every step along the way, whether it was in Donorgate with campaign finance and the failure of Clinton's attorney general to appoint an independent counsel, or later with impeachment or all the many other scandals. CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2000
  • They have not been fulled vetted in re the full impact of the impeachment, the Mark Rich pardon, and a number of other stories. Rasmussen: Obama Leads Hillary By Five Nationally
  • In practical terms, an impeachment would mean he could not serve in any other federal elective or appointive office.
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