declared the Applicant impeached on the grounds therein listed including the Ecobank v. Austin Clarke case in which the Applicant is alleged to have improperly conducted himself when he was presiding over the case at the Supreme Court. 19. Following receipt of the Bill of Impeachment from the House, and similarly recognizing that the LEGISLATURE was yet to prescribe procedure to govern impeachment proceedings, the Liberian Senate forwarded same to its Judicial Committee. Thereafter, the Judicial Committee of the Senate drafted amendments to the Senate Standing Rules (which hitherto were for the sole internal governance of the Senate), titled Amended Rule 63 which was then adopted to govern the Applicant’s impeachment trial. 20. The Plenary of the Liberian Senate approved the said Amended Rule 63 on 6th November, 2018, at least four (4) months after the Amended Petition of Impeachment had been filed against Applicant. 21.Four (4) members of the Liberian Senate, believing that the amendment made by the Senate to Rule 63 did not conform to the constitutional mandate and threshold of the phrase “prescribed procedure by the “Legislature”, on 9th November, 2018 filed before the Supreme Court, a petition challenging the legality of the amendments but same was dismissed by a panel presided over by the Chief Justice, Korkpor. 22.When the impeachment trial commenced at the Liberian Senate on 13 th February, 2019, he filed a motion praying that Mr. Chief Justice Korkpor recuse himself from presiding over the Applicant’s impeachment trial. It was 9

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