Tag: Impeachment

Washington: A former adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign has issued a warning that the US President could be just months away from facing impeachment because of his former personal attorney Michael Cohen’s guilty plea. “This is all they (Democrats) need for impeachment,” Michael Caputo said during a CNN interview on Wednesday night. Caputo was a […]

Brasilia: Brazil’s bar association has called President Michel Temer’s impeachment, after a tape revealed in which he agreed to bribe former Speaker Eduardo Cunha into silence. In a statement, the Order of Attorneys of Brazil (OAB) said that its federal council decided on Sunday to call for Temer’s impeachment and urged the Chamber of Deputies […]

New Delhi: Two Congress MPs, Pratap Singh Bajwa and Amee Yajnik on Tuesday withdrew their petition in Supreme Court challenging rejection of the impeachment notice against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra by Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu. After a 45-minute hearing, a five-judge bench headed by Justice A K Sikri declared the petition […]

  Opposition parties led by the Congress today met Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu and handed over a notice for impeachment of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. According to sources, over 60 MPs of the Rajya Sabha belonging to seven political parties gave the notice for the impeachment against the […]

New Delhi: The Congress has begun the process of initiating impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra and was collecting signatures of MPs of various opposition parties, leaders of the NCP said. However, there was no confirmation about the move from the Congress and its senior leaders avoided questions on the matter. […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump in a scathing letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to halt impeachment proceedings against him by the lower chamber of the Congress, which is all set to start the process with a debate on Wednesday. “This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat lawmakers, unequaled […]

Washington: Donald Trump has become the third US President in history to be impeached by the Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives, setting up a trial in the Republican-controlled Senate that will decide whether he remains in office. The first of two articles of impeachment – accusing the President of abuse of power – was approved […]

Washington: The US Senate has started the historic impeachment trial of President Donald Trump amidst an “acrimonious scene” among the Senators from the ruling Republican party and the opposition Democrats over the rules of the game. The impeachment trial began on Tuesday and comes nearly a week after the House of Representatives, where the Democrats […]