impeachment

It’s not enough to bring the articles of impeachment against an official – you have to convict them, too.

The biggest show in Washington 150 years ago was the trial against the President of the United States.

If not for three sparring Virginia delegates, Congress’s power to remove a president would be even more limited.

It’s our democracy’s ultimate weapon for self-defense. But does intense political opposition justify its use?

James Madison thought of a lot of good reasons to impeach a President. Members of Congress might want to consult his list.

Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.

The real Andrew Johnson compared with the only film made about his life.

President Ford’s unconditional pardon of Richard Nixon created political controversy. It also tarnished Ford’s own reputation with the American public.

Frederick Douglass and Republican legislators had high hopes for Andrew Johnson—but ended up impeaching him.

“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” declared the man who would be America’s sixteenth president.

The 14th Amendment offers a remedy that is both simpler and likelier to work.

In pardoning Nixon, the 38th president opened the floodgates to boundless executive power.

The real challenge is not simply to replace Trump, but to fix a system that produces, promotes, and protects the toxicity that defines his presidency.

Reflections on Alexander Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the power of the presidency.

The Constitution originally provided for the selection of senators by state legislatures, but the 17th Amendment changed that, and with it, the Senate itself.

An historian debunks the vice president’s op-ed.

A pianist performs a piece of music forgotten for 150 years.

Why criminalizing political opposition can be dangerous.

The Founding Father’s account of the Constitutional Convention includes a famous conversation about causes for impeachment.

Three misunderstood aspects of our governmental system, and the truth pulled directly from the Federalist Papers