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The impeachment process as it applies to US presidents, including the role of the Chief Justice and the requirements for conviction and removal.
Conviction in a Senate impeachment trial requires the concurrence of two‑thirds of the Senators present; practically, if all 100 Senators are present that means 67 must vote “guilty” on at least one a...
The Constitution creates a two-step, congressional process to charge and remove a President: has the sole power to impeach (bring charges), and has the sole power to try -process-in-the-us">impeachmen...
The Constitution divides impeachment into two distinct congressional procedures: the House of Representatives has the sole power to impeach (formally accuse) by a simple majority after its own inquiry...
The applies a common constitutional framework to all —two‑thirds for conviction, senators sworn, and remedies limited to removal and optional disqualification—but practice and procedure have diverged ...
The Constitution gives the Senate the "sole Power to try all ," making it the tribunal that determines whether an impeached federal official will be removed from office . In practice that means senato...
played little documented role in the final arithmetic that spared both and from removal: in both cases the recorded tallies fell short of the two‑thirds threshold that would have been required to conv...