impeachment-worthy

adjective

Of such character as to warrant impeachment.

Meanings

adjectiveimpeachment-worthy (comparative more impeachment-worthy, superlative most impeachment-worthy)

comparative more impeachment-worthy · superlative most impeachment-worthy

  1. Of such character as to warrant impeachment.

    Watergate, the modern template for an impeachment-worthy scandal, has informed much of the coverage of the Russia scandal, […].

    2019 March 28, “Oliver North Showed Republicans the Way Out”, in The New York Times
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    One might characterize it as "bad behavior"—not impeachment-worthy but nevertheless deserving, in the eyes of disapproving legislators, of some direct reaction.

    2004, Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, volume 10, page 116

    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.

    2018 December 10, Gabriel Schoenfeld, “The Case for Impeaching Barack Obama”, in The Daily Beast

    […], 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.

    2023, Gustavo Palamone, Presidential Impeachment in Latin America: A Matter of Law or Politics, page 57
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