December 7, 2022 16:43 pm
KATHMANDU, Dec 7: Legal practitioners staged a sit-in at the main gate of the Supreme Court on Wednesday after the Parliament Secretariat issued a letter to suspended Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana stating that the impeachment motion against him was no longer relevant as the term of the parliament has expired.
December 7, 2022 14:18 pm
KATHMANDU, Dec 7: Suspended Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra SJB Rana is going to the Supreme Court (SC) at 3 pm today.
December 7, 2022 13:41 pm
KATHMANDU, Dec 7: The Federal Parliament Secretariat has sent a letter to the Supreme Court (SC) stating that the impeachment motion against the suspended Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra Shamsher JB Rana has been inactive.
December 7, 2022 13:00 pm
KATHMANDU, Dec 7: The impeachment motion against Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana that was registered in parliament has become inactive.
September 1, 2022 14:04 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 1: Suspended Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra SJB Rana has claimed that an impeachment motion was registered against him in parliament after he set the verdict date in the Lalita Niwas land grab scam in which former prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Dr Baburam Bhattarai, too, are embroiled.
August 31, 2022 13:47 pm
KATHMANDU, August 31: The Impeachment Recommendation Committee has started grilling suspended Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra SJB Rana. The committee started recording Rana’s statement in the meeting room of the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee at Singhadurbar on Wednesday.
August 31, 2022 12:00 pm
KATHMANDU, August 31: Suspended Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra SJB Rana has reached Singhadurbar to register his statement. The Impeachment Recommendation Committee of parliament summoned Rana, giving him an opportunity to defend the charges leveled against him today. The ruling parties filed the impeachment proposal against Rana last year with 21 charges.
August 7, 2022 10:07 am
KATHMANDU, August 7: The impeachment motion filed against Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana will be discussed in today's House of Representatives meeting.
March 13, 2022 14:56 pm
KATHMANDU, March 13: The impeachment motion against Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana was tabled in the House of Representatives on Sunday.
February 14, 2022 09:30 am
KATHMANDU, Feb 14: The main opposition CPN (UML) has termed the impeachment motion against the Chief Justice as a part of conspiracy of the ruling alliance.
February 13, 2022 21:54 pm
KATHMANDU, Feb 13: The main opposition party, CPN-UML, has taken a strong exception to the move of ruling alliance to register an impeachment motion against Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana.
February 13, 2022 17:04 pm
KATHMANDU, Feb 13: Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Dilendra Prasad Badu has said that the impeachment motion against Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Rana will be discussed in parliament for a constitutional solution.
February 13, 2022 13:59 pm
KATHMANDU, Feb 13: Lawmakers of the ruling coalition filed a 21-point impeachment motion against Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana on Sunday.
February 13, 2022 12:20 pm
KATHMANDU, Feb 13: An impeachment motion has been filed against Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana at the federal parliament secretariat.
October 29, 2021 13:35 pm
KATHMANDU, Oct 29: Justices of the Supreme Court (SC) have demanded the resignation of Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana, claiming that the issue of the chief justice seeking his ‘share’ in the government through political give-and-take was a very grave one.
May 21, 2021 11:35 am
KATHMANDU, May 21: The main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) has begun preparations to impeach President Bidya Devi Bhandari.
February 10, 2021 07:16 am
WASHINGTON, Feb 10: A divided U.S. Senate voted largely along party lines on Tuesday to move ahead with Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on a charge of inciting the deadly assault on the Capitol, but conviction appears unlikely barring a major shift among Republicans.
February 1, 2021 10:54 am
WASHINGTON, Feb 1: Former president Donald Trump announced a new impeachment legal defense team Sunday, one day after it was revealed that he had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys with just over a week to go before his Senate trial.
January 31, 2021 08:41 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 31: Former President Donald Trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyers little more than a week before his trial, two people familiar with the situation said Saturday. The change injects fresh uncertainty into the makeup and strategy of his defense team.
January 27, 2021 08:55 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 27: All but five Senate Republicans voted in favor of an effort to dismiss Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial on Tuesday, making clear a conviction of the former president for “incitement of insurrection” after the deadly Capitol siege on Jan. 6 is unlikely.
January 26, 2021 09:19 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 26: House Democrats delivered the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the Senate late Monday for the start of his historic trial, but Republican senators were easing off their criticism of the former president and shunning calls to convict him over the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol.
January 14, 2021 09:10 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 14: The below are comments concerning the House of Representatives vote on Wednesday that made Donald Trump the first U.S. president to be impeached twice.
January 14, 2021 08:43 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 14: Donald Trump on Wednesday became the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice, as 10 of his fellow Republicans joined Democrats in the House of Representatives to charge him with inciting an insurrection in last week’s violent rampage in the Capitol.
January 13, 2021 07:13 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 13: The U.S. House rushed ahead Tuesday toward impeaching President Donald Trump for the deadly Capitol attack, taking time only to try to persuade his vice president to push him out first. Trump showed no remorse, blaming impeachment itself for the “tremendous anger” in America.
January 12, 2021 08:35 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 12: Poised to impeach, the House sped ahead Monday with plans to oust President Donald Trump from office, warning he is a threat to democracy and pushing the vice president and Cabinet to act even more quickly in an extraordinary effort to remove Trump in the final days of his presidency.
January 11, 2021 09:41 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 11: U.S. House of Representatives Democrats plan a vote on Monday to urge Vice President Mike Pence to take steps to remove President Donald Trump from office after his supporters’ deadly storming of the Capitol, before attempting to impeach him again.
January 11, 2021 06:49 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 11: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump unless the vice president and Cabinet invoke constitutional authority to force him out, calling Trump a threat to democracy after the deadly assault on the Capitol.
January 9, 2021 08:00 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 9: When some Democrats were pushing for President Donald Trump’s impeachment in early 2019, it took around five months for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to back the idea.
January 8, 2021 19:04 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 8: Congressional Democrats accused U.S. President Donald Trump of inciting insurrection and weighed up impeaching him for a second time after supporters fired up by his false claims of election fraud stormed the U.S. Capitol this week.
January 8, 2021 08:57 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 8: President Donald Trump faced the threat on Thursday of a second impeachment, a day after his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol in a stunning assault on American democracy as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
January 8, 2021 08:57 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 8: President Donald Trump faced the threat on Thursday of a second impeachment, a day after his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol in a stunning assault on American democracy as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
February 14, 2020 14:52 pm
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: President Donald Trump said Thursday that he might end the long-running practice of letting other administration officials listen in on presidential calls with foreign leaders. That’s after Trump’s impeachment was triggered by his July phone call with the president of Ukraine.
February 6, 2020 12:33 pm
WASHINGTON. Feb 6: President Donald Trump won impeachment acquittal Wednesday in the U.S. Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential trial in American history with votes that split the country, tested civic norms and fed the tumultuous 2020 race for the White House.
February 3, 2020 18:41 pm
WASHINGTON, Feb 3: Donald Trump was on the brink of ending the darkest chapter of his tumultuous presidency on Monday as the U.S. Senate began the final phase of his impeachment trial that will almost certainly conclude on Wednesday with his acquittal.
January 31, 2020 11:04 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 31: Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee declared late Thursday he will oppose calling more witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, all but dashing Democratic efforts to hear more testimony and boosting chances the Senate will vote quickly to acquit the president.
January 30, 2020 13:13 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 30: In a striking shift from President Donald Trump’s claim of “perfect” dealings with Ukraine, his defense asserted at his Senate trial that a trade of U.S. military aid for political favors — even if proven — could not be grounds for his impeachment.
January 29, 2020 13:28 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 29: Revelations from former national security adviser John Bolton’s upcoming book are adding some drama to the ongoing Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Some reasons they could be important:
January 29, 2020 10:51 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 29: Republicans lack the votes to block witnesses at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell conceded late Tuesday, a potentially major hurdle for Trump’s hopes to end the trial with a quick acquittal. Earlier, Trump’s lawyers concluded his defense with a plea to move on.
January 28, 2020 13:24 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 28: President Donald Trump’s legal team is raising a broad-based attack on the impeachment case against him even as it mostly brushes past allegations in a new book that could undercut a key defense argument at his Senate trial.
January 27, 2020 14:05 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 The stakes over witness testimony at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial are rising now that a draft of a book from former national security adviser John Bolton appears to undercut a key defense argument.
January 24, 2020 12:58 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 24: Democratic House prosecutors made an expansive case Thursday at Donald Trump’s impeachment trial that he abused power like no other president in history, swept up by a “completely bogus” Ukraine theory pushed by attorney Rudy Giuliani.
January 23, 2020 13:13 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 23: The challenge is becoming increasingly clear for House Democrats prosecuting President Donald Trump’s impeachment case as the Senate convenes for a second day of arguments in the landmark trial.
January 22, 2020 12:20 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 22: The U.S. Senate plunged into President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Tuesday with Republicans abruptly abandoning plans to cram opening arguments into two late-night sessions and Democrats arguing for more witnesses to expose Trump’s “trifecta” of offenses.
January 21, 2020 13:23 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 21: President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is set to unfold at the Capitol, a contentious proceeding to render judgment on his Ukraine actions as Americans form their own verdict at the start of an election year.
January 21, 2020 11:22 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 21: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ impeachment charges and called for their immediate dismissal by the Republican-led Senate in a memo offering a legal and political case against his removal.
January 20, 2020 12:50 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 20: President Donald Trump’s defense team and the prosecutors of his impeachment are laying out their arguments over whether his conduct toward Ukraine warrants his removal from office.
January 19, 2020 12:20 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 19: President Donald Trump’s legal team issued a fiery response Saturday ahead of opening arguments in his impeachment trial, while House Democrats laid out their case in forceful fashion, saying the president betrayed public trust with behavior that was the “worst nightmare” of the founding fathers.
January 17, 2020 10:21 am
WASHINGTON, Jan 17: U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts is poised to become a key figure in the political life of President Donald Trump.
January 16, 2020 13:30 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 16: After weeks of rhetorical fire and fury, a handful of U.S. House members walked quietly across a hushed Capitol on Wednesday to deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate, paving the way for the trial of President Donald Trump.
January 14, 2020 12:59 pm
WASHINGTON, Jan 14: Senate Republicans signaled they would reject the idea of simply voting to dismiss the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump as the House prepares to send the charges to the chamber for the historic trial.