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The procedure for impeaching a US President, including the role of Congress and the potential outcomes.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A definitive legal ruling does not exist: no sitting president has ever been federally indicted, and the has never squarely decided whether a president can be criminally prosecuted while in office . T...
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 Constitution assigns as an impeachable offense and provides that officials removed after conviction remain “liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law” (Art...
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...
-in-2027">A Democratic House in 2027 would have the sole constitutional power to adopt articles of impeachment by a simple majority, but would still require a two‑thirds vote—67 senators if all 100 vo...
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...
A sitting state governor can be impeached by their state legislature for treason and similar high crimes, and remove or disqualify but are not themselves criminal prosecutions . Criminal trials for tr...
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...
Yes — under the Constitution can and can try and potentially convict him; he has in fact been already by the House (first in 2019 and again in 2021), and Senate conviction requires a two‑thirds vote t...
A sitting president enjoys strong, but not judicially settled, protections against criminal prosecution while in office: the ’s has long advised that a president cannot be indicted or prosecuted durin...