the house of representatives has power to remove president from office.
the house of representatives has power to remove president from office.
who has power to remove president from office?
the house of representatives
in 1916, the watch and ward society began efforts to remove pelletier from office. according to pelletier, this was because he refused to present complaints procured by their spotters to a jury. after a complaint to the state legislature's joint judiciary committee was dismissed in the winter of 1916, the society went to the massachusetts supreme judicial court, which twice found their charges unworthy of a hearing. after this the group took its efforts before the boston bar association. in november 1919, pelletier discovered his private office in pemberton square had been wiretapped. he traced the wires back to an office paid for by godfrey lowell cabot, president of the watch and ward society. cabot justified the recording device by saying he needed incriminating evidence to remove pelletier from office. the society had also hired a private detective to keep the district attorney under surveillance for two years. on september 29, 1921, the boston bar association recommended to massachusetts attorney general j. weston allen that pelletier be removed from office, alleging that he was guilty of deceit, malpractice, and gross misconduct. the trial began on december 28, 1921, with senator james a. reed of missouri representing pelletier. reed claimed that pelletier was the victim of the watch and ward society's anti-catholic vendetta. late in the trial, former middlesex county district attorney william j. corcoran turned state's evidence against pelletier and his co-conspirators. on february 21, 1922, the massachusetts supreme judicial court found pelletier guilty of 10 of the 21 charges against him and removed him from office. chief justice arthur p. rugg wrote in the court's opinion that pelletier had "prostituted" his office and used the processes of law "as instruments of oppression in an attempt to wrest money from the blameless and aged" by repeatedly using his position to aid in blackmail and extortion. four of these cases involved pelletier's close friend daniel h. coakley. the court described their relationship as "conspirators to exert the power of the district attorney to extort money, to terrorize people into surrendering causes of action and otherwise to abuse that office".
joseph c. pelletier
the university welcomed teresa a. sullivan as its first female president in 2010. just two years later its first woman rector, helen dragas, engineered a forced-resignation to remove president sullivan from office. the attempted ouster elicited a faculty senate vote of no confidence in rector dragas, and demands from student government for an explanation. in the face of mounting pressure including alumni threats to cease contributions, and a mandate from then-governor robert mcdonnell to resolve the issue or face removal of the entire board of visitors, the board unanimously reinstated president sullivan. in 2013 and 2014, the board passed new bylaws that made it harder to remove a president and possible to remove a rector.
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