Impeachment, penalty for failure and incompetence (3)
By Eric Teniola From last week, the piece continues with the allegations contained in the impeachment notice the House of Representatives served President Olusegun Obasanjo on August 2002 Eleventh Allegation: That Mr. President has refused to appoint a Minister of Petroleum Resources which action has occasioned the following violation: (a) That since inception of this […]
Impeachment: Trump lawyers prepare to deliver defence in Senate
Donald Trump’s lawyers prepared to deliver his first full-throated defence Saturday in the Senate’s historic impeachment trial after Democratic prosecutors spent three days making their case for the United States president’s removal from office. Capping 24 total hours of arguments, Democrats told the 100 senators that Trump abused the power of the presidency in pressuring […]
US Democrats lay impeachment case against Trump
United States Democrats began laying out a detailed case on Wednesday for the removal of the nation’s President, Donald Trump, accusing him at his historic Senate impeachment trial of seeking to cheat to ensure re-election in November. Adam Schiff, the head of the prosecution team from the House of Representatives, took the floor of the […]
Trump’s impeachment trial begins Tuesday
The Senate trial of President Donald Trump is due to get underway in earnest at 1 pm (1800 GMT) on Tuesday, only the third impeachment trial of a president in U.S. history. The 100 members of the upper chamber will gather for what is likely to be the first full day of proceedings in the […]
Trump rejects impeachment charges as an affront to U.S. Constitution
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ impeachment charges, describing the allegations that he had abused his power and obstructed Congress as affronts to the U.S. Constitution that must be rejected. “The Senate should speedily reject these deficient articles of impeachment and acquit the president,” an executive summary of the […]
Trump legal team blasts impeachment as ‘lawless,’ ‘constitutionally invalid’
President Trump’s legal team denounced the articles of impeachment leveled against him, in an aggressive seven-page response Saturday evening. “The Articles of Impeachment submitted by House Democrats are a dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their president. This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of […]
