Comparing Impeachment Regimes

Isolation and impeachment

This text gives a brief reconstruction of the process of impeachment of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, which was a ‘coup’ effected through parliament, and situates it at the end of three periods of politics in the Brazilian republic: the first, broader, and democratizing; the second, the age of the PT (Workers’ Party) as the force with the hegemony on the left; and the third, shorter, the c...

Law, Politics, and Impeachment: The Impeachment of Roh Moo-hyun from a Comparative Constitutional Perspective

In March 2004, the National Assembly of South Korea impeached President Roh Moo-hyun and brought about an immediate suspension of Roh's presidency. Two months later, the Constitutional Court of Korea restored the status quo by dismissing the impeachment and reinstating the President. This episode marks the first time in the history of modern constitutionalism that a president impeached by a leg...

Walkout Disrupts Senate Quorum; Broyles' Impeachment Threatened

Members Boycott Senate Discussion Involving Petition By SANDY COYNER Thresher Associate Editor Firs t the bumbleplums picketed the Senate meeting. Then the Senate bumbled itself into a sudden and f rus t ra t ing defeat as one of its members stalked out and destroyed the fragi le quorum. During the course of its remarkable meeting, the Senate also heard a motion to impeach SA President Bill Bro...

Psychiatric testimony for the impeachment of witnesses in sex cases.

Forensic History, the Impeachment Fiasco, and Constitutional Discourse

The book under review emerged from a curious and provocative episode in a constitutional fiasco. On 8 December 1998, in an “op-ed” article forThe New York Times and in testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, offered a novel argument. If the House were to adopt articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, he ...