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The exact language of the rules used for previous trials could not be utilized for 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson because those rules used wording specific to a trial being presided over by an officer of the Senate (as had been the case for all previous impeachment trials), while the Constitution stipulated that impeachments ...
In the case of the impeachment of a president, the chief justice of the United States presides over the proceedings. For the impeachment of any other official, the Constitution is silent on who shall preside, suggesting that this role falls to the Senate's usual presiding officer, the president of the Senate , who is also the vice president of ...
[48] [49] Various commentators questioned whether the chief justice must preside over the trial of former presidents. [48] [50] Political scientist Keith Whittington noted that the issue is "unsettled, completely without precedent, and unspecific in existing Senate rules and precedents."
The chief justice has presided as such only three times: Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presided over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson in 1868; Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist presided over the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton in 1999; Chief Justice John Roberts presided over the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump in 2020.
When former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial opens on Tuesday, presiding over it will not be U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, who oversaw Trump's first trial, but a Democratic ...
The trial was presided over by President pro tempore Patrick Leahy. The Constitution is silent about who would preside in the case of the impeachment of a vice president. It is doubtful the vice president would be permitted to preside over their own trial. [citation needed] As president of the Senate, the vice president would preside over other ...
President pro tempore Patrick Leahy presides over the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States (in office from 2017 to 2021), began on February 9, 2021, and concluded with his acquittal on February 13.
During pre-trial discovery in the lawsuit, Clinton gave testimony denying that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The catalyst for the president's impeachment was the Starr Report, a September 1998 report prepared by Ken Starr, Independent Counsel, for the House Judiciary Committee.