After the Monday vote, Duterte's defence counsel said the burden of proof now rests with her accusers. "We are fully prepared to defend the Vice President before the Senate sitting as an Impeachment Court," the statement said. An impeachment attempt against Sara Duterte was struck down
President Donald Trump thrust the United States into a war against Iran last weekend without bothering to secure congressional approval or even pretending to identify a legal basis for his actions. This administration has already declared a freewheeling authority to commence hostilities in foreign nations without a greenlight from the legislative branch.
Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security's top spokesperson and one of the most visible defenders of the Trump administration's deportation raids, is leaving the agency in the coming week, the department confirmed. McLaughlin's impending exit, comes at one of the most fraught moments in the department's history. Public support for the administration's immigration enforcement push has fallen to its lowest point since Trump took office,
The violence unleashed on the American people by the Department of Homeland Security must end forthwith. Kristi Noem should be fired immediately, or we will commence impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives, said Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, along with his two deputies, Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar, in a joint statement. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
Peru's interim president, Jose Jeri, has denied lying to the country and claimed he was the victim of a plot to discredit him amid a growing political scandal over his secretive meetings with Chinese businessmen. Jeri, 39, who took office in October after his predecessor Dina Boluarte was forced out, told a congressional oversight committee on Wednesday that he had been the target of a smear campaign designed to destabilise the country ahead of elections in April.
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has received a five-year jail sentence after being found guilty of multiple charges, including attempts to block his arrest after his failed move to impose martial law on the country in December 2024. Yoon was sentenced at the Seoul Central District Court on Friday in televised proceedings of one of the country's most sensitive political trials in recent history.
A gay couple in Washington, D.C. is stuck in limbo after ICE detained one husband, a Panamanian immigrant, during what had long been treated as a routine immigration check-in. Plus, Renee Good's family has retained the same law firm as George Floyd's to launch a civil investigation into her killing, and Rep. Robin Kelly has filed articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, saying she's led a "reign of terror."
It's not possible to have a real impeachment; however, they want to make a record that President Lai would be the first president considered impeached in the history of Taiwan's democracy, said Yen-tu Su, an expert in constitutional law and democratic theory at Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top research institution. It's a way to register their protest. It's a way to humiliate the president, and also a way to retaliate against the executive branch refusal to promulgate legislation passed by the legislators, he told Al Jazeera.
