Chawosaurian Impeachment Model

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## Impeachment of Joseph R. Biden II

(this infobox shows the procedure of the Chawosaurian Impeachment Model if performed in the United States)

## Impeachment Process

### Accused

Joseph R. Biden II, President of the United States

### Charges

This is a scenario impeachment process to show how the Chawosaurian Impeachment Model would work if performed in the United States

## Recall Vote

### Next Election

November 5, 2024

Election map of the recall election

### Total Votes

146,257,820 | 100%

In the Politics of Chawosauria and the Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria, the **Chawosaurian Impeachment Model** (**CIM**) is the official impeachment process in the Chawosaurian world.

The process of the CIM is that the lower house of the bicameral legislative branch presents charges against the executive after an impeachment inquiry, voting to pass the charges to indict the executive (meaning impeaching) with the charges being called the articles of impeachment. The articles of impeachment is sent to the higher house of the legislative branch to conduct a trial and when the trial is finished, the upper house votes on the charges to either convict or acquit, but in the process of the Chawosaurian Impeachment Model, when the executive is convicted, then the conviction automatically triggers a recall election for the people to vote to whether to remove the impeached and convicted executive, instead of the conviction itself unilaterally resulting in removal as it traditionally does in countries like the United States and Brazil. To bar the former executive from running for public office again, there must be a majority ruling from the Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria.

This Chawosaurianized impeachment process is an effort to democratize the Chawosaurian Imperial Government, including the doctrine of "democratize democracy, or democratize liberal democracy".

## Background

Impeachment is the procedure in which the legislative branch of a government, and in some countries, both the legislative and judicial branches of government, moves to remove the officeholder that occupies the executive branch of government; in some countries like the United States, the President of the United States is "impeached" by the United States House of Representatives and is either convicted or acquitted by the United States Senate, conviction leads to removal with the needed number of Senators vote to convict, which has never happened in U.S. history but nearly happened once in 1868 against President Andrew Johnson. In other countries like South Korea, the legislature impeaches and the highest court in the country decides if the impeached executive is to be removed.

Chawosauria's impeachment process copies the United States' and was used really rarely until Chawosaurian Prime Minister Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III in 2020. There are other ways to remove an executive besides impeachment; in 2021, the U.S. State of California recently had what is called a "recall election" against the state's Governor at the time, Gavin Newsom, for breaching COVID-19 public safety guidelines that he himself put in place in 2020 when the pandemic struck California that year, and as a result, the California Republican Party successfully received enough signatures to have Newsom recalled, a recall is an election in which the voters are allowed to choose whether an officeholder should be removed, the California Republicans believed that despite California being such a strongly Democratic state that gave Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden 63% of their votes over incumbent President Donald Trump is the recent election for President of the United States, the Republicans could still win the governorship in California as demonstrated by another recall election in 2003 that resulted in the election of Republican candidate, actor, and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California, but unfortunately for the Republicans, the 2021 recall election against Governor Newsom took a turn to disaster territory for them when a controversial Republican candidate to replace Newsom by the name Larry Elder started to spike in the polls, universally viewed as a right-wing extremist by most Californians who are known to have little tolerance for right-wing politics, the possibility of Newsom getting successfully recalled started to crumble fast, and when election day came at an end, Governor Newsom obliterates the recall by a landslide margin of 61-38%, which was a similar margin he won in his first election as Governor in 2018, and the Republican Party faced backlash for forcing the State of California to waste $276 million of California's taxpayer dollars on a failed partisan recall election, and it didn't help the fact that the Republican Party prided itself as "the party of fiscal responsibility" by the way. Chawosaurian historians, lincluding the most respected of all, Charles Basilica, called the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election the California Republican Party's Castle Bravo disaster.

Despite the time-wasting recall election in California, the Chawosaurian government decided during its efforts to change their constitution that they want to add a recall election to Chawosauria's impeachment process.

## Procedure

The Imperial Parliament of the Empire of Chawosauria is divided by both the Imperial Parliament with three subchambers, the Houses of Commons, Lords, and Representatives; and the Imperial Senate.

### Impeachment by Imperial Parliament

The Imperial Parliament of the Empire of Chawosauria launches an impeachment inquiry whether petitioned by the Chawosaurian people or just decided by Parliamentary leadership. The Imperial Parliament votes to start the drafting of articles of impeachment following impeachment investigations and then the Imperial Parliament's Judiciary Committee approves even one article and once the articles of impeachment are set, then the Imperial Parliament will deal with the articles similar to how a piece of legislation is dealt with before being voted on, the Imperial Parliament will introduce the articles of impeachment for legislative action, then be subjected to a schedule, and under these scheduling guidelines, the articles of impeachment will be reviewed, debated on, and then the Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace decides when the articles of impeachment be voted on, and one the day of the vote, the Imperial Parliament votes to either impeachment by voting for an article, or shoot them down, and if the articles are passed, they go to the Imperial Senate for a trial based on the articles, which are charges.

### Trial and Verdict in the Imperial Senate

The Imperial Senate receives the articles of impeachment from the Imperial Parliament and a trial begins based on the charges brought by the Imperial Parliament against the officeholder (Supreme Leader, Prime Minister, etc.) and the Senators act as the jurors and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria presides the whole process. The Prosecution and the Defense make their cases for either conviction or acquittal, the prosecution have to provide evidence and transcripts, while the defense have to provide rebuttal evidence or an alibi. The Imperial Senate holds a vote to cast a verdict and when the Imperial Senate convicts an impeached officeholder, unlike the U.S., it does not mean removal from office, what a Chawosaurian Senate conviction does is that it triggers a recall election against the incumbent to allow the voters to decide whether to remove the incumbent or not.

### Recall Election

The Imperial Senate triggers a recall election by voting to convict the impeached incumbent officeholder. With the recall election now triggered, the Chawosaurian government must now organize the election under Chawosaurian election laws. Election Day is on the first Friday of a month, election workers must have time to prepare, so the recall election will work as any other election, except a ballot to whether to remove an incumbent. A first choice of the ballot to either remove or keep an incumbent is easily prepared, but adopting the California model, parties have to set their candidates up to replace the incumbent in case of removal. In the election to replace an incumbent, there will be a two-round system, where parties will hold primaries to nominate their candidates for the first round for selection to be one of the two selected candidates to face each other in the second round to be elected to a public office, and if one of the two contenders win the most votes, then is declared the winner of the entire election, but in order to truly win the entire election, the incumbent that the two candidates are seeking to replace must be voted out of office on the recall ballot.

## See also

* Elections in Chawosauria
* Politics of Chawosauria