But we has impeached
Part of the Clinton legacy. And he was found contempt of court and paid a fine
There are 2 parts to the Impeachment process.
First, the House initiates the Impeachment Process, during this process they have hearings and grand juries taking testimony and all the fact finding things take place to see if the President has alledgedly committed any crimes, after this fact finding perid, the full Congress is shown all of the evidence at hand and they vote on whether there is enough evidence to send the Impeachment to a TRIAL in the Senate. The vote in the house is for something similar to an "indictment" of a crime, is there enough evidence to charge the President with a crime.
Then, if there is enough votes, I believe it only takes a majority for this vote in the House, the Impeachment process goes on to the Senate.
The Senate is an actual trial, Where the Chief Justice of the supreme court resides over the Impeachment trial in the Senate as the Judge.
All of the prosecutor's gathered information and testimony from the House's fact finding investigations is presented as evidence, before the Senate, as though the Senate is the jury in a court case, and the president is the defendant, presenting his defense.
After the trial is over, the Senate votes on whether the President is guilty or not guilty of the crimes he was charged doing.
Our constitution states it takes a vote of 2/3's of the Senate to find him guilty of these crimes and misdemeanors in order for the Impeachment to be successful, in order to be impeached and removed from Official office as President.
The Senate found him, not guilty. They acquitted him for his alledged crimes and thus, the Presiden'ts impeachment was NOT successful and he remained in office.
Acquitted of his crimes.
That is my understanding of how Impeachment works!
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