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Republicans impeach US homeland security chief over border crisis

By Frankie TAGGART WASHINGTON, Feb 14, 2024 (AFP) – Republicans impeached US President Joe Biden’s immigration chief on Tuesday, the culmination of months of attacks on the Democratic administration as they seek to make border security a key issue in November’s election. Conservatives in the House of Representatives, which is narrowly controlled by Republicans, blame Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a surge in illegal entries from Mexico that they have called a “humanitarian catastrophe.” […]

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Hunter Biden to testify in Republicans’ impeachment inquiry

WASHINGTON, Jan 19, 2024 (AFP) – Joe Biden’s son Hunter will testify next month before two congressional committees carrying out an impeachment inquiry against the US president, the Republican chairmen of the panels said Thursday. “Hunter Biden will appear before our committees for a deposition on February 28, 2024,” said James Comer, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and Jim Jordan, chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary. “Hunter’s deposition will […]

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Biden slams “baseless stunt” as House formally launches impeachment inquiry

By Camille CAMDESSUS WASHINGTON, Dec 14, 2023 (AFP) – The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, escalating Republicans’ battle with Democrats ahead of the 2024 election in a move Biden himself slammed as a “baseless” stunt. Republicans, seizing on Biden’s son Hunter’s controversial international dealings, have yet to provide evidence of corruption by the president, and the Democratic-led Senate would be unlikely to convict him even […]

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Top House Republican backs Biden impeachment inquiry

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, bowing to pressure from his party’s hard right, gave the go-ahead on Tuesday for an impeachment investigation into US President Joe Biden. “I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” McCarthy said, alleging that the Democratic president had lied to the American people about his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings. “House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations about President Biden’s conduct,” […]

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Facing impeachment, Ecuador’s president dissolves congress

By Paola LOPEZ, Santiago PIEDRA SILVA Agence France-Presse QUITO, May 17, 2023 (AFP) – Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso issued a decree on Wednesday dissolving the legislature as he fought for his political future following impeachment proceedings in parliament over alleged corruption. The decree released abruptly by the unpopular conservative president’s office states that Lasso is dissolving the opposition-led National Assembly “due to a grave political crisis and national commotion.” In dissolving congress, Lasso called on […]

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Peru president ousted after bid to dissolve Congress

by Carlos MANDUJANO / Luis Jaime CISNEROS Agence France-Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s leftist leader Pedro Castillo was impeached and replaced as president on Wednesday in a dizzying series of events in the country that has long been prone to political upheaval. Dina Boluarte, a 60-year-old lawyer, was sworn in as Peru’s first female president just hours after Castillo tried to wrest control of the legislature in a move criticized as an attempted coup. […]

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Peruvian President Castillo avoids impeachment in Congress vote

by Carlos MANDUJANO / Luis Jaime CISNEROS LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s President Pedro Castillo avoided impeachment by an opposition-dominated Congress on Monday, bringing to a close the second bid to unseat him since he rose to power eight months ago. Following a parliamentary debate that lasted more than eight hours, 55 legislators voted in favor of Castillo’s impeachment, 54 voted against, and 19 abstained. Eighty-seven votes would have been required to impeach the leftist […]

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Leonen hails dismissal of impeachment complaint vs him

(Eagle News) — Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen on Thursday, May 27, welcomed the decision of the House of Representatives’ justice committee to junk the impeachment complaint filed against him. In a statement, Leonen said a “dismissal on the basis of the mere face of the complaint affirms the baselessness of the grounds raised.” He said it is an “act that powerfully speaks for itself,” and was also  a reminder to “some” people “not to waste […]

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Trump acquitted, again, by US Senate

  by Chris Lefkow and Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday on charges of inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol, after a majority of Senate Republicans closed ranks and refused to punish the former president in his historic second impeachment trial. The five-day trial saw Democratic prosecutors argue — bolstered by dramatic video of the January 6 riot — that Trump betrayed his oath by […]

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House impeachment prosecutors wrap up case against Trump

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — House prosecutors wrapped up their impeachment case against Donald Trump on Thursday, urging the Senate to convict the former president of inciting the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. “We humbly, humbly ask you to convict President Trump for the crime for which he is overwhelmingly guilty,” said Representative Joe Neguse, one of the House impeachment managers. “Because if you don’t, if we pretend this didn’t happen — or […]

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Trump asked to testify in Senate impeachment trial

  by Paul HANDLEY Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Democratic lawmakers leading the impeachment case against Donald Trump requested Thursday the former president to testify in his looming trial for allegedly inciting insurrection in the attack on the US Capitol last month. Five days before the trial opens, Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin, who will lead the prosecution, gave Trump until 5:00 pm (2200 GMT) on Friday to respond and warned that refusing […]

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Trump hires new impeachment defense lawyers

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Former US president Donald Trump announced Sunday that he had hired two lawyers to head the defense for his historic second impeachment trial. Trump introduced the lead lawyers — David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr — the day after reports said several members had left his legal team just over a week shy of his trial before the US Senate. Schoen is a trial lawyer who has said […]

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