impeachment

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Recent Examples of impeachment Everybody on our side understands that impeachment is a critical tool in the toolbox for constitutional self-defense against a president acting like a king, an imperious, lawless, arrogant king. NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026 Brazil's Senate, which is the body that has the authority to impeach Supreme Court justices in Brazil, has dozens of requests for impeachment proceedings against de Moraes, and only a few against Mendonca for now. ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026 In addition to the impeachment special session, Driskell and the House Democratic caucus called for a House committee to investigate the findings of the grand jury report, and consider the impeachment of others named in the report. Gray Rohrer, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026 Trump impeachment crusader scores upset in Oklahoma Senate race. FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026 Congress also has the right to impeach the president, with the House drawing up articles of impeachment and the Senate holding the trial on those articles. Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026 Prosecutors in the impeachment proceedings argued that the messages were not isolated political comments but reflected a pattern of hostility toward Jews, Zionism, and the State of Israel. Juan Melamed, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026 In November 2025, Green again vowed to introduce impeachment articles, this time alleging abuse of power. Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2026 Somewhat similarly, conservatives have sometimes claimed that the Russia investigation and first impeachment helped Trump politically by drawing to his side Republicans who resented the overreach. Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impeachment
Noun
  • Burke is now being represented by a public offender after his defense attorney withdrew from the case the morning of the arraignment.
    Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2026
  • His arraignment hearing in Sacramento Superior Court had not yet been scheduled, jail records show.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That drew condemnation in the volatile region that remains ethnically divided more than three decades after the war, which started when Bosnia's Serbs took control over swaths of the country's territory to form their own state.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Police shot at an unarmed crowd protesting apartheid pass laws on March 21, 1960, and drew international condemnation.
    Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Once rare, censures and expulsions have become more common, particularly in the House.
    Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Following the vote, Speaker Mike Johnson asked Edwards to present himself in the well of the chamber as the censure resolution was read aloud.
    John Parkinson, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Apple prefaced its reveal with a denunciation of foldables that open into a square aspect ratio.
    Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
  • What Assange wanted was not a system hardened against attacks, but one tied in knots, hopelessly conflicted and filled with suspicion, denunciations, and purges.
    Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

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“Impeachment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impeachment. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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