0 the act of making a formal statement that a public official might be guilty of a serious offence in connection with his or her job, especially in the US: --
Ohio lawmakers presided over several impeachments during the state's infancy.
The investigation expanded and ultimately led to impeachment.
1 especially in the US, the action of formally accusing a public official of a serious offence in connection with their job: --
call for/face impeachment A resolution to be filed in the House of Representatives will call for his impeachment.
Perhaps there could be some kind of impeachment procedure leading to the removal of the mayor.
This is the only opportunity we get of defending its administration from impeachment made outside.
There are many reasons why the question of impeachment is relevant.
I think that the recent history of impeachment processes there is not a very good model for us to follow here.
Apart from the process of impeachment, the congress could exercise some form of control over the executive by calling in person cabinet ministers to inform about particular areas of policy.
As we will see next, she mobilizes this cultural knowledge of bodily difference to project an interpretive background for her for thcoming impeachment of the defendant.
In spite of the legislature's incentive to monitor the president, his fixed term in office gives him considerable leeway subject only to the threat of impeachment.
On the one hand, a justice facing, for example, impeachment might choose to leave office rather than be subjected to such proceedings.
