He is replacing Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, whose nine-year rule saw failed power grabs and opposition impeachment bids against her because of allegations of vote-rigging, corruption and rights abuses.
VOA: standard.2010.06.30
The Byrd administration then sought to impeach the Judicial Appeals Tribunal, although most experts agreed that no judicial impeachmentpower exists in the Cherokee constitution.
They believed that power of impeachment and removal should be used for a different purpose: to protect the body politic, to protect the government itself from a president who's conduct was so abusive as to constitute an assault -- a threat -- to the entire system.