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Impeachment Procedure: History of Failures | Israel today

2019-12-19T23:05:07.234Z


The House of Representatives voted for Trump's impeachment, but past experience indicates that this is during his chances of bringing an Ephesian White House exchange to the United States


The House of Representatives voted for President Trump's ouster, but past experience shows that this is during his chances of bringing a White House tenant exchange to Ephesians • Historical overview

  • The presidents who were about to be ousted. Clockwise: Clinton, Trump, Andrew Johnson and Nixon // Photo: AP

The House of Representatives vote Thursday for the impeachment of President Trump, despite its near-impossible chance of passing the Senate court stage, is an unusual event on any scale in the U.S. political system and has occurred only three times throughout state history.

The impeachment process in the United States is the last line of prosecution in the country's public servants, headed by the president. The procedure is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and is valid for all public office subjects, elected and unelected.

But even though U.S. officials have previously been ousted in this proceeding, which includes voting in the House of Representatives and a Senate trial, which requires a two-thirds majority of the House to decide on the impeachment, no U.S. president has ever been ousted in a Senate trial.

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Despite impeachment investigations against many presidents, including George W. Bush and Barack Obama, only three cases in American history have been decided by the House of Representatives on this trial, the last of which was in 1999.

The first case in which a president was ousted by the House of Representatives was that of Andrew Johnson, the first Democratic president in the United States after the Civil War, who was accused of breaking the law when he fired his Secretary of War. The House of Representatives voted in favor of his impeachment, but in the Senate trial, the president was blamed for one vote.

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The second impeachment procedure in American history is much more familiar. Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, was close to being indicted by the House of Representatives for a number of indictments in 1974. The cause of the indictment was the Watergate case in which the President was accused of attempting to whitewash and obscure his political rivals and conceal a party crackdown on the Democrat. By his people. Nixon resigned before voting in the House of Representatives or Senate court, but it was estimated at that time that the majority would be found to be ousted in the Senate trial.

In 1998, the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton, faced an impeachment lawsuit in the Legislature. Clinton was charged with giving false testimony to the House of Representatives and disrupting investigative proceedings. The House of Representatives decided to vote to oust Clinton, but the Senate, despite being President, acquitted Clinton.

When it comes to examining the history of the impeachment process, it is important to understand that while it is a process whose implications and deliberations are legal in nature, at the end of the day, it is a political process that mainly represents the confidence that elected representatives from both parties acquire.

Source: israelhayom

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