South Korea’s Constitutional Court has initiated trial proceedings to determine the fate of President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was suspended after declaring martial law and sparking nationwide political turmoil. Yoon’s impeachment was approved by MPs last Saturday, following mass protests demanding his resignation. The court has six months to decide whether to remove Yoon from … Read more
The Wall Street Journal has reported the changing mood among senators in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, saying Republican senators appear yielding to pressure to allow witnesses to testify in the trial. The respected journal in an exclusive report on Tuesday said Trump’s pointsman in the Senate, Mitch McConnell who had vowed to … Read more
Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump told his Senate impeachment trial on Saturday that Democrats’ efforts to remove the president from office would set a “very, very dangerous” precedent in an election year. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, the head of the defense team, told senators they would be denying voters their right to give … Read more
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would love to be attending his impeachment trial underway in the US Senate, but that his lawyers had advised him against it. “I’d love to go. I’d sort of love (to) sit in the front row and stare in their corrupt faces,” Trump told reporters as he … Read more
Proceedings at the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump began Tuesday, along the lines scripted by the White House. Twice, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate rejected Democratic bids to obtain documents and evidence to aid the trial, an early sign the trial could proceed along lines favourable to Trump. As the third impeachment trial in … Read more