impeachment-worthy

English

Adjective

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

1. (of an act) Of such character as to warrant impeachment.
   • 2004, Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, volume 10, page 116:

     One might characterize it as "bad behavior"—not impeachment-worthy but nevertheless deserving, in the eyes of disapproving legislators, of some direct reaction.

   • 2019 March 28, “Oliver North Showed Republicans the Way Out”, in The New York Times:

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

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

     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.

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

     […] , 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.