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The process by which a president can be removed from office.
As of mid-January 2026, multiple impeachment resolutions against President Donald J. Trump have been filed and activism calling for impeachment has increased, but no formal impeachment process that is...
Yes — a sitting U.S. president can be removed from office, and for Donald J. Trump the constitutional pathways discussed publicly are resignation, impeachment and conviction by the Senate, the involun...
Available reporting documents new impeachment activity — articles and at least one House resolution that purports to impeach President Donald J. Trump — and widespread discussion among Democrats and R...
No — there is no evidence in the available reporting that a federal judge "put in papers to Congress to impeach Trump"; impeachment articles and resolutions in the House have been introduced by member...
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that "140 Senate lawmakers" have formally petitioned to impeach Donald Trump; the material instead documents grassroots petition drives and House impeach...
Donald J. Trump has been impeached twice by the House—first in 2019 on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and again in 2021 for incitement of insurrection—and in both instances the ...
Congress has no constitutional power to “directly” remove a President except through the impeachment process laid out in Article I and Article II; the Constitution ties removal of a President to impea...
On December 11, 2025, the House voted 237–140 with 47 present on a motion to table H.Res.939, Representative Al Green’s privileged resolution to impeach President Donald J. Trump; the 140 “nay” votes ...
Impeachment and the 25th Amendment are distinct constitutional mechanisms—impeachment is a legislative removal for "high crimes and misdemeanors," while the 25th Amendment addresses presidential inabi...
The Senate trial of President Bill Clinton concluded with acquittal on both articles of impeachment—perjury and obstruction of justice—on February 12, 1999, allowing him to finish his second term in o...
Congress’s formal role in removing a president under the 25th Amendment is narrowly defined: Congress must resolve a dispute triggered by the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet (or another b...
Congress cannot simply enact a law to oust a sitting president; the Constitution vests the formal power of removal in impeachment and conviction (House impeachment, Senate trial) . Nevertheless, schol...
When large numbers of lawmakers call for a president’s resignation, Congress has two formal constitutional tools that matter: resignation itself is a private, written act by the president that must be...
A formal ">dementia diagnosis alone is not a constitutional ground for impeachment; impeachment targets "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," not medical conditions . Instead, the...
One hundred forty House Democrats voted to advance Representative Al Green’s December 11, 2025 impeachment resolution by voting “no” on the motion to table, a procedural move that in effect pushed Gre...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment does not permit Congress acting alone to remove a president; Section 4 creates a multi-step process that begins with the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet (or “su...
The 25th Amendment and impeachment are constitutionally distinct paths to depriving a president of power: impeachment is a legislative criminal/removal process tied to "treason, bribery, or other high...
If the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, the vice president immediately assumes the powers and duties of the presidency as acting president while the...
A Member of Congress can be removed from office before a criminal conviction, but the constitutional route is not criminal trial or automatic disqualification — it is a political process inside the ch...
The Supreme Court’s decision carving out immunity contours for presidential “official acts” has narrowed the immediate criminal pathway against a sitting or former President but did not eliminate Cong...