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That's where impeachment comes in.
Impeachment isn't the same as actually removing someone from office.
Originating in the United Kingdom, impeachment allowed Parliament to vote for removing a government official from office even without the king's consent.
And so impeachment was adopted in the United States as a power of Congress applying to any civil officers, up to and including the president.
Although demands for impeachment can come from any members of the public, only the House of Representatives has the power to actually initiate the process.
The actual trial that follows impeachment is held in the Senate.
Unlike in the United Kingdom, impeachment in the U.S. pits an elected legislature against other democratically elected members of government.
That still leaves a lot of room for interpretation, not to mention politics, and many impeachment trials have split along partisan lines.
Since then, the House has launched impeachment investigations about 60 times, but only 19 have led to actual impeachment proceedings.
And impeachment of a sitting president is even more rare.
But impeachment can be seen as an emergency brake for when these safeguards fail.
We will see it in Brazil after the impeachment and when we finally see a new legitimate president elected there.
In 1998, six months into the Monica Lewinsky-Clinton impeachment scandal, I helped cofound MoveOn.org with a one-sentence petition: "Congress must immediately censure the president and move on to pressing issues facing the nation."
I also remember the long campaign for the impeachment of Nixon in 1973-1974 that will eventually lead to his resignation and the swearing in of Gerald Ford, the first Vice President, and eventually President, of the US who had not been elected, since he was appointed Vice President by the Senate after Spiro Agnew had to resign to face trial, conviction and sentence for embezzlement.
The impeachment trial in the US Senate of President Clinton and the political crisis that could have amplified both political and economic uncertainty, leading to another sharp fall in prices on Wall Street, also had absolutely no effect on Americans and how they spend and save their money.
The movement, backed by several political parties, ultimately forced Musharraf to step down in 2008, to avoid impeachment.
Although Nixon did fire the first independent prosecutor, Archibald Cox, in the infamous “Saturday Night Massacre,” another was installed and Nixon ultimately resigned rather than face impeachment by the House of Representatives and conviction by the Senate.
Whether an impeachment effort will be made cannot be known now.
But most observers believe that key Republicans in the House of Representatives, where impeachment would begin, have thrown in their lot with Trump, mainly because they fear his loyal base (about a third of the country, clustered in many congressional districts).
Whether a president can actually be indicted is an unsettled question; but if Mueller believes that the president shouldn’t be indicted, he would submit his charges to the House, which would then decide whether to proceed with impeachment.
With Park’s impeachment, South Korea has gained an ideal opportunity to leave behind her father’s legacy as well.
Meanwhile, South Korea has been mired in a corruption scandal that culminated in the impeachment of its president, Park Geun-hye.
One is rooted in separation of powers: it could not be used in cases of impeachment, an issue that is handled by Congress.
Such a move would be met with a potential legal challenge, based on the impeachment clause or other constitutional limits.
It began unexpectedly last October, with the eruption of a corruption scandal involving then-President Park Geun-hye, culminating in her impeachment and removal from office earlier this year.
Even if the Democrats take only the House, life for Trump will become far more complicated, owing to the raft of investigations that the new majority would be certain to launch, and possible impeachment proceedings.
Although the impeachment played out according to the constitution, there was little semblance of due process, and international observers have described the move as a “parliamentary coup.”
In response, Lugo’s largest bloc of legislative support, the Liberal Party, turned against the government and joined the opposition’s impeachment proceedings.
Latin American leaders from both the left and the right have sharply condemned Lugo’s impeachment, and further isolation could destabilize the country.
It is no coincidence that a land conflict provided the fodder for the trumped-up impeachment charges against Lugo.
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