WASHINGTON — The congressional power to remove a president from office through impeachment is the ultimate check on the chief executive. No president has ever been forced from the White House ...

The impeachment power’s primary function, in actual practice, is to lay down a marker for history. Donald Trump has joined Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton as the only presidents to be ...

Impeachment was universally understood to be a response to abuses of official power. Hamilton in The Federalist Papers is just one of numerous examples. So I am not reading "against the United ...

The power of impeachment and removal is limited and enumerated, like the rest of Congress’s powers, and if either the House or the Senate transgresses those constitutional limits, ...

The Constitution grants the House of Representatives sole power to conduct the inquiry and decide whether or not to ultimately level articles of impeachment against the official being probed. 3 ...

If an impeachment inquiry becomes unavoidable, political leaders on both sides of the aisle will have a duty to work together to find ways to overcome the resulting civil strife and put the nation ...

Can they really impeach and convict Trump after he has left office? Yes, the Constitution says the House of Representatives “shall have the sole power of impeachment,” and this means that ...

Impeachment is the hair of the dog after an all-night executive power bender. Sure, a Bloody Mary might make you feel better for a little while. But in the long run, it might be better to get off ...

An analysis of the new rules for the Trump impeachment process, compared to those used for former Presidents Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.

New balance of power. The 2021 impeachment also comes under a political makeup for both houses of Congress. During the 2019 impeachment vote, all 195 House Republicans voted against impeachment, ...

As Justice Joseph Story, one of the great legal scholars of the early Republic, wrote, the Constitution has imposed the impeachment qualification on the president’s pardon power “so that he ...

For Trump's second impeachment, there was no impeachment inquiry at all. The House moved straight to voting on an article of impeachment a week after the Jan. 6 insurrection, in a push to impeach ...