What President was impeached for defying the Tenure of Office Act?
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Andrew Johnson.  He was never kicked out as the Senate didn't convict him.  50 years later, the Supreme Court ruled that Johnson was right.  Johnson was the President after Lincoln's assassination.  Basically, he fired the Sec. of War that Lincoln hired.  The Republicans didn't want him to do that b/c he was a Democrat.
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No.  You can't impeach someone because you disagree with them or because they are unpopular.  The Constituion specifies impeachment only for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.  Nixon's covering for the Watergate Break In probably counts, everything since (the Whitewater stuff is a stretch the evidence was a little thin) just lacks proper legal standing.  Congress needs to stop treating impeachment as a political toy and reserve it for what it is, a very serious proceding not to be undertaken lightly or in a partisan manner.
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Politicians can be kicked out when they are voted out in Elections.\n\nRecall Elections can be held for Governor and most other offices although a Recall cannot be held for President.\n\nIn order to remove the President the House has to Impeach him (Impeach is not a removal by the way, Impeach means a Trial gets to be held, 2 Presidents were Impeached but never removed cause they were aquitted).\n\nHowever when an Impeachment Trial is held a certain number of Senators have to vote Guilty but 51 Guilty votes do not remove him (it requires somewhere from I think 60 - 67 votes).\n\nSo to those want Bush removed in an Impeachment Trial dream on cause even if the Democrats got the Senate there would not be enough votes to remove Bush.\n\nHeck in the Clinton impeachment trial 55 Senators voted him Guilty on one Impeachment article but it was not even enough to remove Clinton (plus some Republicans did vote him Not Guilty).
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He lied under oath.  A president can only be impeached when he breaks the law, and this was (as far as we know) the only law Clinton broke while in office.
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Once elected and after Congress has certified the Electoral votes, a President of The United States may only be removed from office by Impeachment. 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." Removing 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. The vice president presides over the Senate proceedings in the case of all officials except the president, whose trial is presided over by the chief justice of the Supreme Court. Only two U.S. presidents have been impeached: Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth chief executive, and your favorite, William J. Clinton, the forty-second.
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Impeachment and controversies\n\n    Main article: Impeachment of Bill Clinton\n\nIn 1999, Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives. He was acquitted by the Senate. The perjury charge arose from Clinton's testimony about his relationship to Monica Lewinsky during a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former Arkansas-state employee Paula Jones. The obstruction charge was based on his actions during the subsequent investigation of that testimony. On February 12, the Senate concluded a 21-day trial with the vote on both counts falling short of the Constitutional requirement of a two-thirds majority to convict and remove an office holder. The final vote was generally along party lines, with all of the votes to convict being cast by Republicans. On the perjury charge 55 senators voted to acquit, including 10 Republicans, and 45 voted to convict; on the obstruction charge the Senate voted 50-50. [18] Clinton, like the only other president to be impeached, Andrew Johnson, served the remainder of his term.\n\nThe day before leaving office, Clinton agreed to a five-year suspension of his Arkansas law license as part of an agreement with the independent counsel to end the investigation. Based on this suspension, Clinton was also automatically suspended from the United States Supreme Court bar, from which he chose to resign. [17][18] Clinton's resignation was mostly symbolic, as he had never practiced before the Supreme Court and was not expected to in the future. Clinton also was assessed a $90,000 fine by federal judge Susan Webber Wright for contempt of court. The Paula Jones lawsuit was settled out of court for $850,000.\n\nIn addition to impeachment and the Whitewater scandal, the Clinton White House was the subject of many other controversies.\n\nThe White House travel office controversy involved allegations of impropriety in the firing of civil service staffers. The White House personnel file controversy involved improper access by security officials to FBI files on White House personnel, without first asking for the individuals' permission. The Bill Clinton pardons controversy involved a grant of clemency to FALN bombers in 1999 and pardons to his brother Roger, tax-evading billionaire Marc Rich and others in 2001 \n\nThe "Chinagate" controversy involved allegations of improper campaign contributions to President Clinton's legal defense fund and the Democratic National Committee, by individuals such as John Huang, James Riady, and Maria Hsia, et al. Allegedly, the ultimate source of this money was the Chinese government. Seventeen donors and fund-raisers were convicted of felonies due to the affair.\n\nEarly in his first-term, a largely discredited documentary, the Clinton Chronicles, implicated Bill Clinton in a large number of deaths of his acquaintences. This also became known as the "Clinton Body Count" and was the subject of a request for Congressional hearings in 1994. As many as 60 people were on this list of "suspicious deaths" including Jim McDougal, Vince Foster and Ron Brown.\n\nIn March, 1998 Kathleen Willey, a White House aide, alleged that Clinton had sexually assaulted her. Also in 1998, Juanita Broaddrick alleged that Clinton had raped her in 1978. No charges were filed in either case.\n\nSecretary of Agriculture Mike Espy was acquitted on each of 30 charges of illegally accepting gifts such as sports tickets, lodging, and transportation from companies regulated by his department in exchange for favors. [19] HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros was indicted on 18 counts of conspiracy, giving false statements and obstruction of Justice. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of lying to the FBI about the amount of money he gave his mistress, political fundraiser Linda Medlar. Medlar plead guilty to 28 counts related to the investigation. Both Medlar and Cisneros were pardoned by Clinton.\n\nOn Clinton's last day in offic
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Just to correct an answer--Nixon was NOT impeached, but certainly would have been.  He resigned first.\n\nIt'd be nice of some of these responses would reach beyond the last 10 years.  We've had presidents around for close to 250 years now, and some of them were pretty awful compared to any recent ones.\n\nI understand Ulysses S. Grant was nothing more than a sentimental war hero choice and spent his term pretty much drunk.  Herbert Hoover presided over the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression, without being able to do anything to impact either.
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Impeachment means that the issue goes to the senate.  The senate then needs a 2/3 majority to throw the president out of office.
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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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It would be hard to impeach Bush because it would have to be approved by the House and the Senate. The majority of congressmen in office are on the Right. This is sort of the same reason why Clinton wasn't impeached. Bush has done an exponential amount of damage compared to Clinton and anyone who says that it was passed on from Clinton must not have seen the U.S. budget over the past 40 yrs.
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You people kill me with such nonsense! Inpeached for what? Iraq? He got congressional approval beforehand. Presidents don't get impeached because supporters start to go soft and wane in their support. Name one impeachable offense!
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I totally agree with you but he would have to lie under oath to be impeached for his fish story. Here's a bigger reason: He swore to defend, protect and uphold the constitution but he is violating our constitutional right to privacy by tapping our phones. That's only the tip of the ice berg. This administration is the worst in American history.
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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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Yes.\n\nThe text of the current law is: "If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President...."
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In order to be impeached, the President must have been convicted of "high crimes and misdemeanors".\nIn Clintons case, it was perjury.\nI love how libs throw out six digit numbers for the death toll.
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To "impeach" means to bring to a tribunal, to try, on the grounds on improper conduct ("high crimes and misdemeanors"). Many people assume that when a politician is impeached he is actually removed from office. That is incorrect. Impeachment hearings merely allow accusations to be read and for a hearing to take place. Under the US Constitution, the House can bring forth articles of impeachment, but it is the Senate which actually votes to remove or not. So, the House impeached President Clinton but the Senate acquitted him. Same goes for President Andrew Johnson. Nixon surely would have been impeached and voted out of office had he not resigned, and his successor Ford gave him a full pardon so he would be immune from the possibility of serving prison time as a civilian. (Ford later paid for this- many say- by losing the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter).
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you can't recall a president.\nthe only way for removal of a president is for the house of representatives to find logical cause in the way of criminal charges to recommend impeachment. the then impeached president would face a trial in the united states senate presided over by the chief jusctice of the supreme court. the senate would have to have a 2/3 majority vote an any charge to actually impeach him. consequently, this has only happened twice in our nations history and at no time did the senate actually impeach a president and remove him from office. when it happened to President Andrew Johnson he survived by one vote thanks to a Senator Edmund Ross of Maine who changed his mind at the last minute voting against the radical republicans.