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The process of impeachment as outlined in the US Constitution, including the roles of the House and the Senate.
A Senate conviction requires the concurrence of two‑thirds of the Senators present, which in a full 100‑member Senate means 67 guilty votes to convict and thereby remove a president; removal is automa...
When impeached in and in , neither president was convicted by , so neither was removed from office nor barred from holding future federal office; Johnson was acquitted by one vote and Clinton was acqu...
Article VIII of the Minnesota Constitution establishes impeachment as a state constitutional remedy: the House has sole power to impeach and the Senate tries impeachments, the covered officers are lim...
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...