Impeachments

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, center, leaves an African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday Dec. 5, 2022. Ramaphosa might lose his job, and his reputation as a corruption fighter, as he faces possible impeachment over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars stashed inside a couch on his farm. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

South Africa’s lawmakers delay debate on president’s future

South Africa’s lawmakers have postponed until next week a debate on the damning report that has resulted in calls for President Cyril Ramaphosa to step down.
 
Pennsylvania state House of Representatives' impeachment managers Reps. Craig Williams, left, Tim Bonner, and Jared Solomon depart after delivering articles of impeachment against Philadelphia's Democratic district attorney, Larry Krasner, to the Senate chamber at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. House Republicans earlier this month approved seven articles of impeachment, which will be heard in a Senate trial. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Philly prosecutor sues to stop lawmakers from removing him

 
African National Congress (ANC) treasurer general Paul Mashatile, center, walks out following a meeting of the ANC's national executive committee in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday Dec. 2, 2022. South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa, who did not attend the meeting, might lose his job, and his reputation as a corruption fighter, as he faces possible impeachment over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars stashed inside a couch on his farm. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

EXPLAINER: Why South Africa’s president might lose his job

 
Pennsylvania state House of Representatives' impeachment managers Reps. Craig Williams, second left, Jared Solomon, center and Tim Bonner, depart after delivering articles of impeachment against Philadelphia's Democratic district attorney, Larry Krasner, to the Senate chamber at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. House Republicans earlier this month approved seven articles of impeachment, which will be heard in a Senate trial. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pennsylvania Senate to put progressive prosecutor on trial

 
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, of Calif., talks to reporters, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP’s McCarthy threatens to impeach Mayorkas over border

 

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner talks about Republican-led efforts to investigate his record addressing crime and gun violence on the front steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg on Friday, Oct. 21. 2022. Krasner said he believes lawmakers could be voting on an impeachment effort in the state House as early as next week. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)

Pennsylvania House impeaches Philly prosecutor over policies

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Philadelphia’s elected Democratic prosecutor faces a state Senate trial and possible removal from office after the Republican-led state House voted Wednesday to impeach him over progressive policies he has enacted amid rising crime in the city.
 

Pennsylvania House tees up vote to remove Philly prosecutor

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday moved closer to impeaching Democratic Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, with GOP leaders saying a floor vote to send it to the Senate was expected Wednesday.
 

Tacoma cops charged in death put on credibility issues list

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A spokesperson for the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said the office this month added the three Tacoma police officers charged in the March 2020 killing of Manuel Ellis to a list of law enforcement with credibility issues.
 
Donald Trump Jr. speaks before his father, former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in support of the campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., at the Miami-Dade County Fair and Exposition on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Judge tosses impeachment witness’s suit against Trump’s son

A judge has ruled that the oldest son of Donald Trump and other Trump allies did not defame a retired Army lieutenant colonel who was a key witness in the first impeachment case against the former president.
 
FILE- U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., receives the support of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., during a campaign rally, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, in East Lansing, Mich. Slotkin emphasized how a shared concern for a functioning democracy can unite Democrats and Republicans despite policy disagreements. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio_File)

Michigan Dem Scholten wins US House race over Trump loyalist

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Democrat Hillary Scholten on Tuesday won a congressional seat being vacated by a Michigan Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump.
 
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, left, speaks to a crowd of supporters while her husband Dean Gluesenkamp looks at during the Clark County Democrats election night watch party at a hotel in Vancouver, Wash., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian via AP)

Two races in Washington state could tip scales in Congress

SEATTLE (AP) — With control of Congress potentially hanging in the balance, Democratic candidates took early leads Tuesday night in two key races in Washington state.
 
Dale Lee, president of West Virginia Education Association, speaks with other state education leaders against proposed Amendment 4 at a press conference at the West Virginia state Capitol on Sept. 27, 2022, in Charleston, W.Va. Voters in West Virginia will get the final say on a ballot question that would amend the state constitution to give the Republican-dominated legislature control over virtually every aspect of public schooling. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)

W.Va. voters reject GOP proposals on school, tax control

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Voters in West Virginia rejected four proposed amendments to the state constitution Tuesday, including two that would have given the Republican-dominated legislature more power to regulate public education policy and certain taxes.
 
FILE - Former Alaska Gov. Bill Sheffield smiles as he holds a The Anchorage Times newspaper in his Capitol office in Juneau, Alaska, on Aug. 5, 1985, after he survived an impeachment effort during July and August 1985. A statement provided by friends says he died Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, at his home in Anchorage. He was 94. Sheffield was governor from 1982 to 1986. (Brian Wallace/The Juneau Empire via AP, File)

Bill Sheffield, former Alaska governor, dies at age 94

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Bill Sheffield, a former Alaska governor whose term in office was roiled by an impeachment proceeding, has died. He was 94.
 
FILE - Members of the public watch the start of a West Virginia Senate hearing to discuss an abortion bill on July 29, 2022, at the state Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. West Virginia lawmakers are asking voters in the Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, election to give them more power to regulate public education policy and certain taxes while prohibiting state Supreme Court intervention in the Legislature's impeachment trials. (AP Photo/John Raby, File)

West Virginians to decide on 4 constitutional amendments

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers are asking voters to give them more power to regulate public education policy and certain taxes while prohibiting state Supreme Court intervention in the Legislature’s impeachment trials.
 
FILE - New York literary agent Lucianne Goldberg addresses a large assembly of media outside her apartment Saturday, Jan. 24, 1998, in New York. Goldberg, a key figure in the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, has died, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022 at the age of 87. (AP Photo/Emile Wamsteker, File)

Lucianne Goldberg, key figure in Clinton impeachment, dies

Lucianne Goldberg, a literary agent and key figure in the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, has died at the age of 87.
 
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner talks about Republican-led efforts to investigate his record addressing crime and gun violence on the front steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg on Friday, Oct. 21. 2022. Krasner said he believes lawmakers could be voting on an impeachment effort in the state House as early as next week. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)

Philadelphia DA facing impeachment says he expects vote soon

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Philadelphia’s elected prosecutor said Friday he’s making plans to defend himself against a possible impeachment process by the Republican-controlled Legislature and that it could begin as early as next week.
 
Republican Joe Kent, left, and Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wait before taking the stage for a debate in the race for the 3rd Congressional District, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Vancouver, Wash. Kent and Perez are battling for the newly open in seat in the southwest corner of the state after incumbent Republican Jaime Herrera Buetler was ousted in the primary. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

Washington House seat in play amid increased polarization

For years, a congressional seat in a Republican district in southwest Washington has evaded Democrats.
 

Former Alabama sheriff pleads guilty to lying about loan

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A former Alabama sheriff who resigned during a state impeachment probe has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of lying to a bank about a loan that was used in part to pay off personal loans, court documents show.
 

Kentucky court suspends prosecutor who asked for nude photos

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Supreme Court has suspended an Eastern Kentucky prosecutor who promised to help a defendant in exchange for nude photos.
 
FILE - Baylor University President Ken Starr testifies at the House Committee on Education and Workforce on college athletes forming unions on May 8, 2014, in Washington. Starr, whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment, died Sept. 13, 2022. He was 76. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Ken Starr, whose probe led to Clinton impeachment, dies

Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment, died Tuesday at age 76, his family says.
 
FILE - Then presidential candidate Pedro Castillo leads his cows for feeding as journalists follow, in Chugur, Peru, April 15, 2021. Castillo’s election in 2021 brought hopes for change in Peru’s unstable and corrupt political system, but the impoverished rural teacher and political neophyte has found himself engulfed in impeachment votes and corruption allegations. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Challenges mount against Peru’s president, his family

President Pedro Castillo’s surprise election brought hopes for change in Peru’s unstable and corrupt political system, but the impoverished rural teacher and political neophyte has found himself so engulfed in impeachment votes and corruption allegations that his presidency has become an exercise in
 
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney speaks to supporters at her election night party, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, in New York. Maloney lost to U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York's 12th Congressional District Democratic primary. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

2 New York Democrats ousted from US House in primary losses

Two New York Democrats have been ousted from the U.S. House in primary elections after redistricting shuffled congressional districts in one of the nation’s largest liberal states.
 
FILE - Sarah Palin, a Republican seeking the sole U.S. House seat in Alaska, speaks during a forum for candidates May 12, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska. Palin is in two elections on Tuesday, Aug. 16. She is one of three candidates in a special election vying to fill the remainder of U.S. Rep. Don Young's term after he died in March. She's also in the U.S. House primary, seeking a full two-year term. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Murkowski advances in Alaska Senate race, Palin in House

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and her Trump-endorsed Republican rival Kelly Tshibaka have advanced from Tuesday’s primary.
 
Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, center, is shown at the grand opening of her reelection campaign office in Juneau, Alaska, on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Murkowski said she expects to be among the candidates who will advance from the Aug. 16, 2022, U.S. Senate primary in Alaska. Under a system approved by voters and being used in Alaska for the first time this year, the top four vote-getters in the primary, regardless of party affiliation, will advance to the November general election, in which ranked voting will be used. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Cheney and Murkowski: Trump critics facing divergent futures

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney hail from their states’ most prominent Republican families.
 
FILE - Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington on Dec. 18, 2019. Newhouse was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump last year, and is one of only two to beat back GOP challengers this year. (House Television via AP, File)

Newhouse’s primary success rare among GOP impeachment voters

The 4th Congressional District in Washington state is a land of snow-capped volcanic peaks and lush irrigated apple orchards.
 
FILE - Peru's President Pedro Castillo, front right, walks alongside Prime Minister Anibal Torres and members of his cabinet outside the government palace in Lima, Peru, March 8, 2022. On Aug. 3, 2022 Torres announced that he presented his resignation to the president, citing personal reasons. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Prime minister resigns, adding to political turmoil in Peru

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s prime minister announced his resignation Wednesday, adding to political uncertainty in the South American nation as President Pedro Castillo faces several criminal investigations after only a year in office.
 
Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., speaks with the media late Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Grand Rapids, Mich. He is running against John Gibbs in the Republican primary in Michigan's 3rd Congressional District. (Katy Batdorff/Detroit News via AP)

Michigan GOP Rep. Meijer loses reelection after Trump vote

Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer, who witnessed the Capitol riot days after taking office in 2021 and then cast one of the 10 Republican votes to impeach Donald Trump over the attack, has lost his reelection bid.
 
Iman Alsaden, chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood Great Plains, hugs Rachel Sweet, campaign manager for Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, at the Overland Park Convention Center in Overland Park, Kan. Kansas voters protected the right to get an abortion in their state, rejecting a measure that would have allowed their Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten abortion restrictions or ban it outright. (Tammy Ljungblad/The Kansas City Star via AP)

Takeaways: Abortion backlash in Kansas, Greitens’ collapse

In one of the biggest days of this year’s primary campaign season, red-state Kansas rejected a measure that would have made it easier to restrict abortion, and voters in Missouri repudiated a scandal-tarred former governor seeking a Senate seat.
 

Nigerian leader faces impeachment threats amid insecurity

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Opposition lawmakers in Nigeria have threatened to impeach the country’s president Muhammadu Buhari over accusations he has failed to implement recommendations to end rising violence in the West African nation.
 
U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., speaks at a Memorial Day observance event on May 30, 2022, in Vancouver, Wash. As one of two Republican members of Congress from Washington state to have voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, Beutler is facing one of her toughest primaries since she was first elected to represent the southwest region of the state in 2010. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian via AP)

House incumbent targeted by Trump faces tough primary in WA

U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler is facing one of her toughest primaries since she was first elected to represent the southwest region of Washington state in 2010.
 
Former President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Joe Lombardo, Clark County sheriff and Republican candidate for Nevada governor, and republican Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt, on July 8, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

How a crowded GOP field could help Trump in 2024 campaign

As Donald Trump considers another White House run, polls show he’s the most popular figure in the Republican Party. But it wasn’t always that way.
 
FILE - Philadelphia's Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia, on Jan. 31, 2022. The state House voted Wednesday, June 29, 2022, to set up a panel that could recommend impeachment of Krasner as Republicans hope a tough-on-crime message will resonate with voters this fall. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

House sets up committee to consider Philly DA’s impeachment

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers began a process Wednesday to study Philadelphia’s growing gun violence plague, establishing a panel that could eventually recommend impeachment of the city’s elected Democratic district attorney.
 

Trump to rally for Palin, Dunleavy, Tshibaka in Alaska

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Former President Donald Trump plans to attend a rally in Alaska next week for candidates he has endorsed in the state, including Sarah Palin, who is running for the Alaska’s only U.S.
 

South Dakota interim AG dismisses 2 of Ravnsborg’s top aides

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s interim attorney general on his first day in office Tuesday dismissed two of former Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg’s top appointees who were involved in the aftermath of Ravnsborg’s 2020 fatal car crash.
 
Lev Parnas, center, speaks to the media outside the federal courthouse in New York, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in President Donald Trump's first impeachment investigation, was sentenced Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Giuliani’s former Ukraine fixer gets 20 months in prison

An associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment investigation was sentenced Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes.
 
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