When three Honolulu City Council members switched parties midway through their terms in 1985, voters retaliated by removing them from their posts using the city’s recall process. That, by law, barred the trio from holding elected or appointed city office for two years.
If they had been impeached, however, no such penalty would have existed, and they could have run for election again mere months later. That’s a mismatch that Hawaiʻi law professor David Callies thinks should be cleaned up…