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The president may not grant a pardon in the impeachment case, but may in any resulting federal criminal case (unless it is the president who is convicted and thus loses the pardon power). However, whether the president can self-pardon for criminal offenses is an open question, which has never been reviewed by a court.
Following the vote to impeach a president, the U.S. Senate holds a trial to determine whether or not to convict the president of the crime(s) identified by the House.
First day of the Judiciary Committee's formal impeachment hearings against President Nixon, May 9, 1974. Impeachment proceedings may be requested by a member of the House of Representatives, either by presenting a list of the charges under oath or by asking for referral to the appropriate committee. The impeachment process may be requested by ...
The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868, with Chief Justice of the United States Salmon P. Chase presiding. The Constitution of the United States gives Congress the authority to remove the president of the United States from office in two separate proceedings.
What happens when a presidential impeachment inquiry runs into a presidential election year? The United States in uncharted territory. Could President Trump be impeached and removed from office ...
The Republican-led House Committees investigating whether to impeach President Joe Biden released their long-awaited report on their findings, arguing President Biden has committed impeachable ...
Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Nelson administering an oath to Salmon P. Chase for Chase's service as presiding officer of the 1868 impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson Chief Justice William Rehnquist serving as presiding officer during the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. In an impeachment trial of an incumbent ...
With more Americans now than ever agreeing that President Trump should be impeached ... what would it take for it to happen?