Articles of Impeachment are precise statement of the facts upon which an impeachment of a government official is based. In the US Constitution under Article I Section 3, for example, the President can be impeached and removed only for Treason, Bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. The House of Representatives draws up and votes on the Articles of Impeachment stating the facts that allegedly amount to those offenses. Articles of Impeachment are likened to the counts of an indictment against a defendant in a criminal case.Note: Impeachment refers to the process. Impeachment does not mean removal. A conviction for impeachment means automatic removal from office.
Babara Jordan
File articles of impeachment
Richard Nixon
Nixon resigned voluntarily before they did any voting for impeachment in Congress. The Supreme Court called for his impeachment, but there was still to vote in the Senate and House. If he stayed, he probably would have been impeached.
The role that the senate has in the impeachment process is sole power to try-to judge, sit as a court-in impeachment cases.
The House Judiciary Committee conducts the formal inquiry into whether the president should be impeached. Based on their findings that recommend to the full house to impeach or not to impeach and submit the Articles of Impeachment ot the full house. The full house debates each article of impeachment and votes on each as to whether or not to impeach the president. If a simple majority votes to impeach the president on any or all of the articles of impeachment, the president will be "impeached." However, it is the senate who tries the president. See related question for more information.
The only constitutional method of removing a President or Vice President is the impeachment process, which requires the House of Representatives to pass formal articles of impeachment and the Senate to pass a conviction.
A. There was no presidentThere was no president.
It empowers the Presidency of the President and helps the President follow the rules of the Congress
Barbara Jordan.
He resigned before they could take him to court.