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Originally Posted by Foxrac
No, you made incorrect.
Zelaya was removed by military coup, that which is wrongful and illegal so supreme court don't have power to say something about president or they can't issue an warrant but they did so they are abuse their power or corrupted.
You can't compare like that to impeachment because require 2/3 from congress to vote but military coup has no vote, also Clinton and Nixon aren't impeachment due one resign and other is not guilty in senators, only Andrew Jackson has been impeached.
No, you need read it or let agree to disagree.
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Oh, I have! But I know you haven't. There was no military coup. The MSM use those words inaccurately as a hyperbole.
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The Honduran attorney general has charged him with deliberately violating Honduran law and the Supreme Court ordered his arrest in Tegucigalpa on June 28.
But the Honduran military whisked him out of the country, to Costa Rica, when it executed the court's order.
His expulsion has given his supporters ammunition to allege that he was treated unlawfully. Now he is an international hero of the left. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Cuban dictator Raúl Castro, and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez are all insisting that he be restored to power. This demand is baseless. Mr. Zelaya's detention was legal, as was his official removal from office by Congress.
If there is anything debatable about the crisis it is the question of whether the government can defend the expulsion of the president. In fact it had good reasons for that move and they are worth Mrs. Clinton's attention if she is interested in defending democracy.
Besides eagerly trampling the constitution, Mr. Zelaya had demonstrated that he was ready to employ the violent tactics of chavismo to hang onto power. The decision to pack him off immediately was taken in the interest of protecting both constitutional order and human life.
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Two incidents earlier this year make the case. The first occurred in January when the country was preparing to name a new 15-seat Supreme Court, as it does every seven years. An independent board made up of members of civil society had nominated 45 candidates. From that list, Congress was to choose the new judges.
Mr. Zelaya had his own nominees in mind, including the wife of a minister, and their names were not on the list. So he set about to pressure the legislature. On the day of the vote he militarized the area around the Congress and press reports say a group of the president's men, including the minister of defense, went to the Congress uninvited to turn up the heat. The head of the legislature had to call security to have the defense minister removed.
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These experiences frightened Hondurans because they strongly suggested that Mr. Zelaya, who had already aligned himself with Mr. Chávez, was now emulating the Venezuelan's power-grab. Other Chávez protégés -- in Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua -- have done the same, refusing to accept checks on their power, making use of mobs and seeking to undermine institutions.
It was this fondness for intimidation that prompted Mr. Zelaya's exile. Honduras was worried that if he stayed in the country after his arrest his supporters would foment violence to try to bring down the interim government and restore him to power.
It wouldn't be a first. Bolivia's President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada was removed in 2003 using just such tactics. Antigovernment militants, trained by Peruvian terrorists and financed by Venezuela and by drug money from the Colombian rebel group FARC, had laid siege to La Paz. As the city ran short on supplies, Mr. Sánchez de Lozada issued a decree to have armed guards accompany food and fuel trucks. The rebels, who had dynamite and weapons, clashed with the guards. Sixty people died. The president was pressured to step down.
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In the end Congress held its ground and Mr. Zelaya retreated. But the message had been sent: The president was willing to use force against other institutions.
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Why Honduras Sent Zelaya Away - WSJ.com
Again, no military coup. Only in your mind would you think that. Ironically, it was ouster of Zelaya that prevented any military coup of his own by becoming a dictator and turn a democracy govt into a communist/socialist run govt a la Hugo Chavez. Everything was done legally and lawfully. I presented my case but you have not. Evidence points to a lawfull removal of Zelaya, a dictator wanna-be.
You forget about our Congress and Supreme Court have the power to impeach a president and remove him/her from office.
Impeachment: The Process