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The impeachment inquiry against Nixon during 1973-74
Without knowing which "Miller" is meant, the question cannot be answered as a specific factual matter; instead the constitutional framework makes clear when impeachment and removal are available and w...
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...
Scholars anchor “abuse of power,” “tyranny,” and “usurpation of appropriations power” as impeachable through the Constitution’s catchall—“high Crimes and Misdemeanors”—and a long line of English and A...
Legal scholars reading the Constitution treated the third article of impeachment not as a narrow criminal-count but as an assertion of the House’s political-remedial power to police abuses of office—i...
Privileged impeachment resolutions—those offered as a “question of the privileges of the House”—are routinely referred to the House Judiciary Committee when they directly call for impeachment, and his...
Jerry (Jerome) Zeifman, who served as general counsel and chief of staff to the House Judiciary Committee during the 1973–74 impeachment inquiry, accused 26–27‑year‑old Hillary Rodham of unethical con...