{"id":12951,"date":"2017-05-18T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/grounds-for-impeachment-are-a-political-not-a-legal-question\/"},"modified":"2017-05-18T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T17:08:00","slug":"les-motifs-de-destitution-sont-une-question-politique-et-non-juridique","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/grounds-for-impeachment-are-a-political-not-a-legal-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Les motifs de destitution sont une question politique et non juridique"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12951","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"In recent days, amid reports of President Trump&rsquo;s involvement with the FBI investigation of Russia&rsquo;s meddling in last year&rsquo;s election, many have wondered whether the president is guilty of obstruction of justice and if such an offense would be impeachable.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":12633}"],"related_issues":[149,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p><em>Editor's note: Joe Maschman is a Common Cause legal fellow.<\/em><\/p><p><em><\/em>La Constitution autorise la destitution du pr\u00e9sident pour trahison, corruption ou \u00ab\u00a0autres crimes et d\u00e9lits graves\u00a0\u00bb. Bien que cette derni\u00e8re cat\u00e9gorie puisse para\u00eetre fourre-tout, il s&#039;agit en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 d&#039;un terme technique en droit anglais. <a href=\"https:\/\/lofgren.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/constitutional_grounds_for_presidential_impeachment_-_house_judiciary_comm_staff_report_february_1974.pdf\">datant de 1386<\/a>. Elle d\u00e9crivait des infractions distinctes du droit p\u00e9nal ordinaire et englobait des crimes contre l\u2019\u00c9tat allant de la corruption et de la mauvaise administration \u00e0 la simple rupture d\u2019une promesse faite au Parlement.<\/p><p>Ces derniers jours, suite aux informations faisant \u00e9tat de l&#039;implication du pr\u00e9sident Trump dans l&#039;enqu\u00eate du FBI sur l&#039;ing\u00e9rence russe dans l&#039;\u00e9lection de l&#039;an dernier, nombreux sont ceux qui se sont demand\u00e9s si le pr\u00e9sident \u00e9tait coupable d&#039;entrave \u00e0 la justice et si une telle infraction serait passible d&#039;une destitution. Il n&#039;existe pas de r\u00e9ponse claire. Il est important de noter que, tout comme le droit p\u00e9nal a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 trait\u00e9 s\u00e9par\u00e9ment des \u00ab crimes et d\u00e9lits graves \u00bb, la discussion sur le crime d&#039;entrave \u00e0 la justice est distincte de la question de la destitution d&#039;un pr\u00e9sident pour ce d\u00e9lit.<\/p><p>Le <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/1505\">crime f\u00e9d\u00e9ral d&#039;entrave \u00e0 la justice<\/a> S&#039;applique \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0Quiconque, par corruption, menaces ou force, ou par lettre ou communication mena\u00e7ante, influence, entrave ou tente d&#039;influencer, d&#039;entraver ou d&#039;emp\u00eacher l&#039;application r\u00e9guli\u00e8re et appropri\u00e9e de la loi\u00a0\u00bb dans le cadre d&#039;une proc\u00e9dure ou d&#039;une enqu\u00eate men\u00e9e par un minist\u00e8re, une agence gouvernementale ou le Congr\u00e8s. \u00ab\u00a0Par corruption\u00a0\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/1515\">est d\u00e9fini comme<\/a> \u00ab agir dans un but inappropri\u00e9, personnellement ou en influen\u00e7ant autrui, y compris en faisant une d\u00e9claration fausse ou trompeuse, ou en retenant, dissimulant, alt\u00e9rant ou d\u00e9truisant un document ou d\u2019autres informations. \u00bb<\/p><p>Pour obtenir une condamnation devant un tribunal f\u00e9d\u00e9ral, les procureurs doivent prouver ces \u00e9l\u00e9ments au-del\u00e0 de tout doute raisonnable. En revanche, pour destituer un pr\u00e9sident, une norme moins stricte s&#039;applique. Une infraction passible de destitution, telle que <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/briefing\/Senate_Impeachment_Role.htm\">Le repr\u00e9sentant de l&#039;\u00e9poque, Gerald Ford, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re c\u00e9l\u00e8bre<\/a> en 1970, est \u00ab ce qu\u2019une majorit\u00e9 de la Chambre des repr\u00e9sentants consid\u00e8re comme tel \u00e0 un moment donn\u00e9 de l\u2019histoire \u00bb.<\/p><p>Cela ne signifie pas que nous ne pouvons pas tirer des le\u00e7ons du travail des Congr\u00e8s pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents. L&#039;obstruction \u00e0 la justice figurait parmi les articles de destitution r\u00e9dig\u00e9s contre les pr\u00e9sidents Nixon et Clinton. Dans le cas de Nixon, les enregistrements de la Maison-Blanche <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nixonlibrary.gov\/forresearchers\/find\/tapes\/watergate\/trial\/exhibit_01.pdf\">r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9<\/a> Le pr\u00e9sident a donn\u00e9 des instructions pour faire pression sur le directeur par int\u00e9rim du FBI afin qu&#039;il interrompe l&#039;enqu\u00eate sur le Watergate. S&#039;appuyant en partie sur ces informations, la commission judiciaire de la Chambre des repr\u00e9sentants a inclus en 1974 \u00ab\u00a0l&#039;ing\u00e9rence ou la tentative d&#039;ing\u00e9rence dans la conduite des enqu\u00eates du minist\u00e8re de la Justice des \u00c9tats-Unis, du FBI, du Bureau des poursuites sp\u00e9ciales du Watergate et des commissions du Congr\u00e8s\u00a0\u00bb parmi les neuf articles de sa proc\u00e9dure de destitution. La commission n&#039;a pas appliqu\u00e9 les normes du code p\u00e9nal\u00a0; elle a choisi les siennes.<\/p><p>There is no magic moment at which an action becomes impeachable, nor a bright line to be crossed when the House must act. Federal criminal statutes do not govern this process. Impeachment is a political question. When members of Congress conclude, based on precedent, the specific facts, and their own consciences, that a public official&rsquo;s action is impeachable or warrants an impeachment investigation, then - and only then - may proceedings begin.<\/p><p>###<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grounds for Impeachment Are a Political, Not a Legal, Question - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/les-motifs-de-destitution-sont-une-question-politique-et-non-juridique\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grounds for Impeachment Are a Political, Not a Legal, Question\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/les-motifs-de-destitution-sont-une-question-politique-et-non-juridique\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/grounds-for-impeachment-are-a-political-not-a-legal-question\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/grounds-for-impeachment-are-a-political-not-a-legal-question\/\",\"name\":\"Grounds for Impeachment Are a Political, Not a Legal, Question - 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