Impeach Trump: Make America Great Again
In the United States impeachment is commonly thought to only apply to the President, but this is not the case. The Constitution states that: “The President, the Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States” are subject to impeachment. It is left unclear as to whether members of Congress are officers of the United States and in practice they have not been treated as such. However, one Supreme Court Justice and 14 Federal judges have been subjected to impeachment as well as two sitting Presidents.
Both Andrew Johnson and William J Clinton were successfully impeached by the United States House of Representatives, but contrary to popular belief, this did NOT result in them being removed from office. Impeachment is simply, as the definition implies, a statement of suspicion of wrongdoing similar to a legal indictment, or put more colloquially, a vote of no confidence. And impeachment is, in fact, a vote.
