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The process of trying an impeached president in the Senate
The Constitution’s 25th Amendment does provide a legal pathway to remove a sitting president deemed “unable to discharge the powers and duties” of the office, but the mechanism in Section 4 has never ...
The House of Representatives impeaches by a simple majority vote: if the House adopts one or more articles of impeachment by a majority, the official is formally impeached and the matter moves to the ...
When impeaches but fails to convict, the immediate constitutional consequence is that the accused remains in office and no -based punishment is imposed; conviction in the Senate—requiring a two‑thirds...
initiates ment through a flexible set of procedures—ranging from a formal floor resolution to a committee-led —and ultimately requires only a simple majority to adopt articles of impeachment and “impe...
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...
and approved a resolution or articles of , follows a predictable —House majority vote, transmission of articles and managers to the Senate, Senate receipt and adoption of , then the trial itself—but t...
A president can be removed only if the House impeaches and the Senate convicts by a two‑thirds vote of senators present—normally 67 of 100 if all are present—after which removal is automatic and a sep...