impeachment-worthy
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]impeachment-worthy (comparative more impeachment-worthy, superlative most impeachment-worthy)
- (of an act) Of such character as to warrant impeachment.
- 2004, Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, volume 10, page 116:
- One might characterize it as "bad behavior"—not impeachment-worthy but nevertheless deserving, in the eyes of disapproving legislators, of some direct reaction.
- 2019 March 28, “Oliver North Showed Republicans the Way Out”, in The New York Times:
- Watergate, the modern template for an impeachment-worthy scandal, has informed much of the coverage of the Russia scandal, […] .
- 2018 December 10, Gabriel Schoenfeld, “The Case for Impeaching Barack Obama”, in The Daily Beast:
- Though the book offers a potted excursion through historical aspects of the Constitution’s impeachment clause, it never enters the territory of serious legal and constitutional analysis of any of the supposedly impeachment-worthy transgressions it sets out.
- 2023, Gustavo Palamone, Presidential Impeachment in Latin America: A Matter of Law or Politics, page 57:
- […] , the defence imbued the argument with other two [sic] elements, namely arguing the necessity of criminal nature to Chase's acts so that they are minimally reprehensible and impeachment-worthy, and the impossibility of an external organ holding him responsible for something that lies within the bound of his functional autonomy.