Impeachment: diferència entre les revisions

L{{'}}'''''impeachment'''''<ref>{{format ref}} http://www.termcat.cat/ca/Cercaterm/rm-cercaterm-fitxa.html a TermCat</ref> (pronúncia en anglès en [[Alfabet fonètic internacional|IPA]]: /ɪmˈpiːtʃmənt/) és una figura del [[dret anglosaxó]] (específicament als [[Estats Units]] i la [[Gran Bretanya]]) mitjançant el qual es pot processar un alt càrrec públic.<ref name=EBrit>{{Cite web|title=impeachment {{!}} Definition, Process, History, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/impeachment|access-date=2020-11-15|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Landau |editor1-first=Sidney |editor2-last=Brantley |editor2-first=Sheila |editor3-last=Davis |editor3-first=Samuel |editor4-last=Koenigsberg |editor4-first=Ruth |title=Funk & Wagnall's Standard Desk Dictionary |volume=1 |date=1997 |publisher=Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. |location=United States |isbn=978-0-308-10353-5 |page=322 |edition=1996 |language=English |quote=1. To charge (a high public official) before a legally constituted tribunal with crime or misdemeanor in office. 2. To bring discredit upon the honesty or validity of.}}</ref> El parlament o congrés ha d'aprovar el processament i posteriorment encarregar-se del judici de l'acusat (normalment a la cambra alta). Una vegada que un individu ha estat objecte d'un ''impeachment'' ha de fer front a la possibilitat de ser condemnat per una votació de l'òrgan legislatiu, la qual cosa ocasiona la seva destitució i inhabilitació per a funcions similars. Es pot entendre com un procés únic que implica tant elements [[política|polítics]] com [[legal]]s.<ref name=GerhardtTheLaw>{{Cite web|author=[[Michael J. Gerhardt]]|title=Impeachment is the law. Saying 'political process' only helps Trump's narrative.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/14/impeachment-is-law-saying-political-process-only-helps-trumps-narrative/|newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref><ref name=Gerhardt3dedition>{{Cite book|publisher=University of Chicago Press|title=The Federal Impeachment Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Federal_Impeachment_Process/3d6NDwAAQBAJ|author=Michael J. Gerhardt|edition=3d|year=2019|pages=106–07|isbn=9780226554976}}</ref><ref name=Gerhardt20>{{Cite book|author=Gerhardt|first=Michael|title=Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2018|isbn=978-0190903657|location=New York, N.Y.|page=20|lccn=2018013560|quote=Impeachment has elements of both legal and political proceedings. As a result, it is a unique process.|author-link=Michael Gerhardt}}</ref>