December 25, 1868, and January 20, 2025, will now be forever linked in American history. These are the dates when two of our worst and most immoral Presidents, Andrew Johnson and Donald Trump, gave ...

Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse ...

In The Impeachment Power, Keith Whittington offers sound and convincing guidance for would-be practitioners of the ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

U.S. presidents have held the right to pardon crimes since the country’s founding, and they have exercised it often with ...

Monday’s pardons by two presidents violate the spirit of the pardon power and suggest the need for constitutional reform to ...

Groups pushing for the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte on Thursday launched an alliance—a so-called "Peach Coalition"—to gather support from the public and lawmakers for the complaints ...

Meranda became the first female and eight speaker of the state house of assembly following Obasa's impeachment. Legit.ng recalls that the impeached Lagos Assembly speaker, Obasa's supporters ...

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Seoul (AFP) – South Korea's Constitutional Court opened the impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday over his failed martial law bid, but quickly adjourned the first hearing after ...

The impeachment trial of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol began Tuesday, as the Constitutional Court reviews his failed attempt to enforce martial law. The session was adjourned minutes later ...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Fouad Oki, has justified the impeachment of the Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, saying it was essential to hold him ...