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The impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 due to perjury and obstruction of justice related to his sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.
A handful of high‑profile women have publicly accused of spanning decades; the most prominent allegations name (rape in 1978), (sexual harassment in 1991; suit filed 1994), (sexual relationship 1995–1...
did lie under oath: he admitted to giving false testimony about his relationship with to investigators, and a federal judge later sanctioned him for misleading statements in a related deposition (admi...
The Starr investigation presented a piece of physical forensic evidence—a blue dress belonging to Monica Lewinsky with a semen stain—and reported DNA testing that matched President Bill Clinton’s gene...
have had uneven effects on midterm outcomes and public opinion: in some cases they energized opposition voters and punished the president’s party, while in others—most notably Bill Clinton’s impeachme...
A mixture of civil suits, congressional records and high‑profile investigations comprise the public legal record of sexual‑misconduct allegations against : ’s 1994 civil suit proceeded through federal...
When impeached in and in , neither president was convicted by , so neither was removed from office nor barred from holding future federal office; Johnson was acquitted by one vote and Clinton was acqu...
’s presidency is defined by an unprecedented concentration and variety of scandals—criminal indictments, allegations of self-dealing tied to his businesses, repeated false or misleading public stateme...
Three Presidents—Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump—have been impeached by the House; none were convicted by the Senate, while Richard Nixon resigned before the House completed impeachment ...
Across the last fifty years (roughly 1976–2026), only one Democratic president has been impeached by a Republican-controlled House: President Bill Clinton in 1998, when the Republican majority pursued...
The narrowly negotiated legal definition of "sexual relations" used during President Clinton’s Paula Jones deposition became the hinge on which charges of perjury and obstruction in the subsequent imp...