Supermajority Rules as a Check on Hyperpartisan Removals
Today the two-thirds provision may be the only thing impeding even more intense partisanship concerning impeachment and removal.
Headlines of the NY Daily News and the NY Post report on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 on the announcement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi starting a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. (© Richard B. Levine)Impeachment, Then and Now: Essential Readings from Law & Liberty
A ticket of admission to the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in the United States Senate on March 13, 1868.An Impotent Congress Can’t Impeach Trump
WASHINGTON, DC: Nancy Pelosi addresses a crowd of supporters at a rally on the Capitol steps.The House Has No Obligation to Impeach the President
It is well-established that the House acts as a prosecutor in the proceeding to remove an executive officer, and that leaves them wide discretion.
Rep. Henry Hyde swears in Kenneth Starr to testify during Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings, November 19, 1998 (Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly / Alamy Stock Photo).Obama and Trump: At What Point Has a President Forfeited the Public Trust?
(image: Marina Linchevska / shutterstock.com)Does Holding Federal Office Confer Immunity from Prosecution?
Special Counsel Robert MuellerThe Constitutional Propriety of Prosecuting the President
Special Counsel Robert Mueller (Alex Wong/Getty Images).Objections to Impeachment: “This Hasn’t Been Our Practice,” Part 2
Image: zimmytws/shutterstock.comObjections to Impeachment: The Protest that “This Hasn’t Been Our Practice,” Part 1
President Andrew Johnson consulting with his lawyers about impeachment, 1868. Hand-colored woodcut (North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy Stock Photo).Objections to Impeachment, Part 3: Overturning the Result of An Election
Protest outside the White House, July 18, 2018 (bakdc / Shutterstock.com).
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