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 pres...

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 ...

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 fra...

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 Rep...

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 P...

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 an...

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, ...

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 convicte...

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...

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 firs...