RE: RE: Chuckling Through Discord
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

RE: Chuckling Through Discord

Words
418
Reading
2 min
Listen
Play
7y

Awe yes, the social boards can be quite exuberant, I had quite a chase myself the other day trying to explain to liberals that impeached is a misnomer at best, heads were exploding and popping everywhere. I was an idiot, ignorant, stupid....that was just the beginning, teach them that no where in the constitution does it say impeached and watch them carry back every copy of an "interpretation" of the constitution then the constitution itself. I told them I'll stick with the legal scholars who address it the proper context of a sentence as impeach a president or an impeachment of a president....then I had to throw them the English Dictionaries to try and highlight to them the errors of their ways.

im·peach′ment n.
Usage Note: When an irate citizen demands that a disfavored public official be impeached, the citizen clearly intends for the official to be removed from office. This popular use of impeach as a synonym of "throw out" (even if by due process) does not accord with the legal meaning of the word. When a public official is impeached, that is, formally accused of wrongdoing, this is only the start of what can be a lengthy process that may or may not lead to the official's removal from office. In strict usage, an official is impeached (accused), tried, and then convicted or acquitted. The vaguer use of impeach reflects disgruntled citizens' indifference to whether the official is forced from office by legal means or chooses to resign to avoid further disgrace.....https://www.thefreedictionary.com/i...
Testimonial evidence indicates that references to (and calls for) "impeaching" a public official are commonly understood to refer not simply to charging that official with misconduct "before a competent tribunal," but to actually removing the official from office. The interpretation is understandable if not legally accurate, since removal from office is typically the goal of impeachment, and there seems to be little doubt that the "remove" sense is what many people have in mind when they think or talk about impeaching a president, governor, judge, or other official. But clear examples of impeach being used to mean "remove" in published sources are rarely seen (in many contexts, the meaning is ambiguous), and when such use does occur, it is likely to be cited as an error.....https://www.merriam-webster.com/dic...

So you see I am not as ignorant as you seem to think. I can't help that your disgruntled and choose to be more vague and don't understand it is sited commonly in error and/or ambiguous at best.