Who Impeaches the Presidnet?
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The right to impeach public officials is secured by the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Sections 2 and 3, which discuss the procedure, and in Article II, Section 4, which indicates the grounds for impeachment: "the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."\n\nimpeachment ticket\nTicket of admission to the U.S. Senate galleries for the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson Source:The Granger Collection\n\nRemoving an official from office requires two steps: (1) a formal accusation, or impeachment, by the House of Representatives, and (2) a trial and conviction by the Senate. Impeachment requires a majority vote of the House; conviction is more difficult, requiring a two-thirds vote by the Senate
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The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, including, but not limited to, the Speaker of the House and federal judges.\n\nHowever, the impeachment process is not the jurisdiction of criminal law and not all crimes are impeachable offenses.
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Impeachment is permitted by the Constitution for high crimes or misdemeanors.  So in order to impeach them both, the House would have to find that each has engaged in a high crime or misdemeanor in order to impeach both.  Then they have to be tried by the Senate in order to be removed (of course the Senate would have to find that each had committed a high crime or misdemeanor in order to do this).  If both are removed from office, the next in the line of succession is the Speaker of the House.  At this moment Dennis Hastert, after January, Nancy Pelosi.
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Congress will choose a presifdent or vice president if he was accused and impeached that he disallowed or violated  the country's. constitution and other laws.If the president has been proofed guilty then he swhould resign and his vice president will be selected as a president and  Congress men choose other vice president.
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Impeachment is reserved for 'high crimes and misdemeanors'. Incompetence doesn't qualify - if it did, half of the government would be gone.
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Only the House of Representatives can impeach a federal official.  They only need a simple majority to issue articles of impeachment (similar to an grand jury indictment in normal cases). The Senate then tries the impeachment to determine if he's guilty and if he should be removed from office.  That requires a 2/3 vote.
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The current Congress will not impeach Bush, however, with the midterm elections this fall, we may have a whole new power structure in Washington come 2007.  The Republicans will probably lose their majority in the House and Senate this year and then the Democrats will have the ability to start the long impeachment process.\n\nIt’s very probable that the President did break the law in respect to this recent wiretapping fiasco, maybe so egregiously that he will be removed from office, but this raises another problem.\n\nDick Cheney.\n\nDoes anyone out there think the Democrats want to put Dick Cheney into the White House where he could run as an incumbent in 2008 if he decides he does enjoy being President after all?  On a number of occasions, the V.P. has said that he doesn’t want to be the Commander in Chief, but do the Democrats really want to risk that?\n\n\nOn top of that, the country is developing a dangerous trend of impeaching or recalling our elected officials when we do not like them.  One must look at Italy, California and much of South and Central America to realize that this is not a path that the Federal government should walk.\n\nNo one has a crystal ball here, but the end result of an impeachment is probably going to be worse than sticking out a few more years with our current President.
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He was impeached by the House of Representatives, not the Senate.  According to the US Constitution, only the House can  impeach someone.  An impeachment is not an official punishment in itself, but once someone is impeached, the Constitution requires the Senate hold a trial to decide if the accused should be removed from office.  The result of the party-line vote in the Senate was not to remove Clinton because Republicans did not have the 2/3 vote needed to remove him.
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Actually, you may not have to wait, with about 1/2 of the Republicans against George W. Bush now,     1ST Stage: the House of representatives can vote to impeach, "articles of impeachment", 2ND Stage: the Senate actually tries the case, with a two-thirds vote required for conviction.\nThe Vice President can be impeached as well. \nBill Clinton was impeached, but not convicted.
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Can he?  Sure.  All it takes is a majority vote of the House of Representatives.\n\nWill he?  Probably not - the Republicans control the House and Senate at the moment.  Clinton was impeached when the opposition party controlled Congress.\n\nKeep in mind that impeachment does not mean removal from office.  Impeachment is simply the process of charging the President (or other positions like Vice-President or judges) with high crimes or misdemeanors.  Then the Senate acts as judge and jury to try the person.  If they are convicted by the Senate, they are removed from office.  Any criminal charges would then involve another trial after the person is out of office.
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No.  Nixon resigned before impeachment was voted on in the House.\n\nClinton was impeached, and aquitted in the Senate.
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Impeachment is not possible. Since essentially it is a partisan political process, one really cannot expect to see it when all three branches of government are Republican controlled, (whether you feel it the right thing to do or not.)
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YES! Impeachment is actually a process guaranteed by the constitution to the Congress to "indict" and try the president for "high crimes and misdemeanors."  The House draws up articles of impeachment. If they are passed, then the president is technically "impeached" but not removed.  The Senate, with the C.J. of the Supreme Court, tries the president, with the C.J. presiding. A guily verdict leads to removal.
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Andrew Johnson was impeached, but not removed. He relieved a member of his Cabinet, Edwin Stanton, and was immediatly impeached by the fiercly Republican Congress. Remember this was very suspicious to a North that had just won the Civil War and seen Abraham Lincoln assasinated by a Confederate nutcase.\n\nRichard M. Nixon was not impeached but he would have been for the Watergate scandal, in which he spied on political enemies. He resigned.\n\nWilliam Clinton was impeached, but not removed for his actions with Monica Lewinsky.\n\nThe Senate did not vote to impeach Clinton.
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Yes they can all be impeached and removed as well as federal judges. They can be impeached as well. A president has never been removed. In the United States, impeachment can occur both at the federal and state level. At the federal level, different standards apply when the impeachment involves a member of the executive branch or of the judiciary (and dispute currently exists over the use of impeachment against members of the legislative branch.) For the executive branch, only those who have allegedly committed "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" may be impeached. Although treason and bribery are obvious, the Constitution is silent on what constitutes a "high crime or misdemeanor." Several commentators have suggested that Congress alone may decide for itself what constitutes an impeachable offense. The impeachment procedure is in two steps. The House of Representatives must first pass "articles of impeachment" by a simple majority. (All fifty state legislatures as well as the District of Columbia city council may also pass articles of impeachment against their own executives). The articles of impeachment constitute the formal allegations. Upon their passage, the defendant has been "impeached."\n\nNext, the Senate tries the accused. In the case of the impeachment of a President, the Chief Justice of the United States presides over the proceedings. Otherwise, the Vice President, in his capacity as President of the Senate, or the President pro tempore of the Senate presides. This may include the impeachment of the Vice President him- or herself, although legal theories suggest that allowing a person to be the judge in the case where she or he was the defendant wouldn't be permitted. If the Vice President did not preside over an impeachment, the duties would fall to the President Pro Tempore.\n\nIn order to convict the accused, a two-thirds majority of the senators present is required. Conviction automatically removes the defendant from office. Following conviction, the Senate may vote to further punish the individual by barring them from holding future federal office (either elected or appointed). Despite a conviction by the Senate, the defendant remains liable to criminal prosecution. It is possible to impeach someone even after the accused has vacated their office in order to disqualify the person from future office or from certain emoluments of their prior office (such as a pension.) If a two-thirds majority of the senators present does not vote "Guilty" on one or more of the charges, the defendant is acquitted and no punishment is imposed.  Here is our impeachment history.\n\ntwo presidents: \n\nAndrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 after violating the then-newly created Tenure of Office Act. Johnson was acquitted of all charges by a single vote in the Senate. \n\nBill Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998 by the House of Representatives on grounds of perjury to a grand jury (by a 228–206 vote) and obstruction of justice (by a 221–212 vote). Two other articles of impeachment failed — a second count of perjury in the Jones case (by a 205–229 vote), and one accusing Clinton of abuse of power (by a 148–285 vote). He was acquitted by the Senate. \n\none cabinet officer, William W. Belknap (Secretary of War). He resigned before his trial, and was later acquitted. Allegedly most of those who voted to acquit him believed that his resignation had removed their jurisdiction. \n\none Senator, William Blount (though the Senate had already expelled him and it may have been illegal, see above). \nAssociate Justice Samuel Chase in 1804. He was acquitted. \n\ntwelve other federal judges, including Alcee Hastings, who was impeached and convicted for allegedly taking over $150,000 in bribe money in exchange for sentencing leniency. The Senate did not bar Hastings from holding future office, and Hastings currently serves as a Democratic member of the House
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Impeachment is nothing more than an indictment. It does not remove a person from office. It takes a simple majority in the U.S. House to impeach a federal officer (President and Vice President are federal officers). If they are impeached, they will then stand trial in the U.S. Senate, where it takes a 2/3 majority to convict and remove from office. \n\nThe Dems do have enough votes in the House to impeach, but they are no where close enough to the required number of votes to convict in the Senate. They one have 51 seats, and need a minimum of 67 votes.
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yes, being impeached just means that they are going to vote to throw you out of office.  They impeached him, but then they congress voted to keep him.  that's the simple version.