In a contentiousHouse Rules Committee meetingthat lasted into the night on Wednesday, Democrats systematically rejected GOP attempts to alter the ground rules that lawmakers will use as they considerimpeaching President Trump, even as Republicans argued that the Dems' proposed procedures were fundamentally...
Also supporting the rules was independent Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, who left the GOP this year after announcing he was open to considering Trump’s impeachment. Thursday’s House debate was laced with high-minded appeals to defend the Constitution and Congress’ independence, as well as par...
Senate Majority Leader Francis Tolentino also noted that procedural rules from past impeachment trials, such as those used during Chief Justice Renato Corona’s trial in 2012, need updating. “The Constitution says that ‘the Senate shall forthwith proceed with the trial,’” Tolentino said at...
House Democrats have argued that there is no need to hold a full chamber vote to authorize the impeachment inquiry, citing Constitution stating that the House "shall have the sole Power of Impeachment." Speaking to a press conference Thursday morning, Pelosi pushed back on Republicans' criticism....
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Constitution gives the House "the sole power of impeachment" — but it confers that authority without an instruction manual.
This chapter focuses on the cases of impeachment that took place in Nigeria as well as the circumstances that surrounded this important legislative responsibility. In all the cases discussed in this chapter, the legislatures failed to adhere to the prescribed constitutional rules and procedures to ...
President Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 for violating an act that set rules for appointing or firing federal officials. Johnson was just a single vote short of being found guilty. President Bill Clinton was impeached in 1999 on charges that he committed perjury when testifying to a fede...
With the controversy surrounding the Ukraine whistleblower and the active impeachment inquiry in congress, we go back to the basics on federal impeachment. In this brief, Judge Andrew Napolitano breaks down the rules governing federal impeachment in the Constitution and shares informative historical exam...
However, it is equally clear that the Senate is not bound to follow normal legal rules. Impeachment, Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 65, 'can never be tied down by such strict rules, either in the delineation of the offense by the prosecutors or in the construction of it by the judges...
Under the rules, the committee can schedule a hearing within 24 hours. The White House has a Friday deadline to decide about whether to participate in that or future hearings. We will see what they do. Here’s what we’re expecting in the weeks ahead: ...