Impeachment

Eventos (12)

• 1804

  11/30 — The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial of Federalist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase.

• 1805

  3/1 — Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.

• 1871

  3/22 — In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.

• 1925

  3/21 — Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.

• 1974

  7/27 — Escándalo del Watergate: El Comité Judicial de la Cámara de Representantes vota 27 a 11 para recomendar el primer artículo de impeachment (por obstrucción de la justicia) contra el Presidente Richard Nixon.

• 1988

  4/4 — Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.

• 1992

  9/29 — Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.

• 1998

  11/19 — Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.

• 1998

  12/19 — El Presidente Bill Clinton es acusado por el Congreso de los Estados Unidos, convirtiéndose en el segundo Presidente de los Estados Unidos en ser acusado.

• 2004

  3/12 — The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: The first such impeachment in the nation's history.

• 2004

  4/6 — Rolandas Paksas se convierte en el primer presidente de Lituania en ser destituido pacíficamente del cargo por impeachment.

• 2012

  6/22 — El Presidente paraguayo Fernando Lugo es destituido del cargo mediante un juicio político y es sucedido por Federico Franco.