He was impeached on four charges involving bribery, corruption, betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution.
In the meantime, Christian Selmer was impeached on 27 February; his cabinet members followed one by one, the last being impeached on 1 April.
In 1993, during a second term in office, he was impeached on corruption charges and spent two years under house arrest.
He committed suicide after being impeached on a charge of treason or extortion.
In perhaps one of the most brazen moves from the Sri Lankan government, in January of this year the Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake was impeached on charges of 'misconduct', prompting an outcry from lawyers around the world.
(The first was Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who was impeached on June 22 , 1981 and the second was Mohammed Ali Rajai, who was assassinated in a bombing on Aug. 30, 1981).
Until, that is, his boss was impeached on corruption charges.
Strafford was taken into custody on 10 November; Laud was impeached on 18 December; Lord Keeper Finch was impeached the following day, and he consequently fled to the Hague with Charles's permission on 21 December.
Six months into his Presidency, according to a USA Today/Media Ethics poll, the country is split on whether or not he should be impeached, with forty-two per cent on either side of the question.
Some protesters about a quarter on Avenida Paulista, according to one poll want her to be impeached over a multi-billion-dollar bribery scandal at Petrobras, the state-controlled oil giant.
