So how about Donald Trump siccing the Department of Justice on Act Blue, the Democratic fundraising juggernaut? Hmmm. To mark Trump’s first (worst?) hundred days, I thought it might be fun to look at ...

the power of impeachment. On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted along party lines, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

Subsequently, there have been several attempts to begin impeachment proceedings against particular justices, but none has ever prevailed in the House. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the ...

How do I know? Because in 1868, Andrew Johnson was impeached for speaking ill of the House of Representatives.” “Impeachment is not all that the scholars would have us believe it is,” he ...

The United States had experienced only two of them—Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998—until Trump’s first term, during which he was impeached twice! Whether Trump will raise ...

Only three U.S. presidents have been impeached: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Trump. All were acquitted in the Senate and were not removed from office. Former President Richard ...