Sentence examples for except in cases of impeachment from inspiring English sources
The Governor is given total authority over clemency except in cases of impeachment.
III, § 2, cl. 3 provides: Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury..
"The power of pardon conferred by the Constitution upon the President is unlimited except in cases of impeachment," the Supreme Court ruled in 1866.
Article II, Section 2 vests the president with the "Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment".
There it plainly says that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment".
Because it has the power to impeach the president, Congress might be the final backstop if Trump did pardon himself ― the U.S. Constitution says the president has full power to pardon "except in cases of impeachment".
The governor also has the ability to grant a pardon or commutation of sentence of any person convicted of a crime in the state, except in cases of treason or impeachment.
The Constitution restricts the president's use of the pardon in only one instance, cases of impeachment.
The power to pardon is not applicable to cases of impeachment, and in cases of treason, a gubernatorial pardon is only effective until the end of the next session of the General Assembly, which can grant a full pardon for treason.
Moreover, the Constitution explicitly bestows on Congress not the judiciary the power to try the president for criminal wrongdoing in the case of impeachment.
