Category: Impeachment

Chief Justice John Roberts will be dividing his duties between the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress in the coming week. As required under the U.S. Constitution, Roberts will preside over the impeachment proceedings of President Donald Trump. As descr...

No U.S. President has ever been removed from office via impeachment proceedings. However, three have come very close.  Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives.  Meanwhile, Pr...

When drafting the U.S. Constitution, the framers debated whether to allow for impeachment of the President. After determining it was essential to prevent abuse of power, the framers went on to consider the process for impeachment, as well at what ty...

By design, impeachment is a long and formal process involving a number of key players. The most important are set forth in the U.S. Constitution, including that the House of Representatives has the power to impeach, while the Senate has power to try...

When drafting the Constitution, the framers intentionally made it difficult to impeach federal officials, including the President of the United States. As a result, no sitting President has ever been removed from office. While both Bill Clinton and ...

Thomas Porteous, Jr., a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, was the last federal judge to be impeached. He was convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office on December 8, 2010, on charges of accepting bribe...

After being convicted for lying to investigators about allegations of sexual abuse, Judge Samuel B Kent was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. Judge Kent, however, was never convicted by the U.S. Senate because he resigned from office...

Walter L. Nixon, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, was impeached and removed from office in 1989. He was impeached after being convicted oncharges of giving false testimony to a grand jury investigating alle...

Alcee L. Hastings, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, was impeached on charges of perjury and conspiring to solicit a bribe. He was removed from office in 1989, but went on to serve in the U.S. House of Represen...

Harry E. Claiborne, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, was impeached and removed from office on charges of income tax evasion in 1986. It was the first time that a judge had been impeached in more than five decades. Legal...