Trump impeachment: Here's how the process works.
In Trump’s case, the House Intelligence Committee was tasked with the investigation and the matter was then turned over to the Judiciary Committee, which drafted two articles of impeachment -- for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The process is dictated entirely by the ruling party.
Trump now faces a trial in the Senate, where that body will decide whether he should be removed from office.When it comes to impeachment, the Constitution lists"treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," as justification for the proceedings, but the vagueness of the third option has caused problems in the past.
President Donald Trump walks with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Nov. 16, 2017, as they leave a meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill.According to Suzanna Sherry, a law professor at Vanderbilt University who specializes in constitutional law,"nobody knows" what is specifically included or not included in the Constitution’s broad definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
If the Senate fails to convict, a president is considered impeached but is not removed, as was the case with both Clinton in 1998 and Andrew Johnson in 1868. In Johnson’s case,While the Senate trial has the power to oust a president from office, and ban him or her from running for future office, it does not have the power to send a president to jail.
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