Every Impeachment in American History

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Mr. Beat goes through every federal impeachment in American history.

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Here's an annotated script with footnotes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h2kbE8QlUHBpqKaGtaVL3FVY6F_Q9M_OSqpdmOHjsc4/edit?usp=sharing

Sources/further reading:
https://history.house.gov/Institution/Origins-Development/Impeachment/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_efforts_to_impeach_presidents_of_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impeachment_investigations_of_United_States_federal_officials
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impeachment_investigations_of_United_States_federal_judges
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment/impeachment-list.htm

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Here is a list of all the impeachment trials in American history, along with their dates:

William Blount (1798) - July 7 to January 14, 1799
John Pickering (1804) - January 2 to March 12, 1804
Samuel Chase (1804) - December 7, 1804 to March 1, 1805
James H. Peck (1830) - May 3 to January 31, 1831
West H. Humphreys (1862) - May 26 to June 26, 1862
Andrew Johnson (1868) - March 5 to May 26, 1868
Charles Swayne (1905) - December 13, 1904 to February 27, 1905
Robert Archbald (1912) - July 9 to January 13, 1913
Harold Louderback (1933) - March 2 to March 3, 1933
Halsted Ritter (1936) - April 17 to June 3, 1936
Harry E. Claiborne (1986) - July 7 to September 10, 1986
Alcee Hastings (1989) - March 16 to October 20, 1989
Walter Nixon (1989) - November 28, 1989 to November 3, 1990
William Jefferson Clinton (1998) - December 19, 1998 to February 12, 1999
Donald John Trump (2019) - January 16 to February 5, 2020 and February 9 to 13, 2021

Today, in the United States, impeachment basically just means charging someone in public office with a crime.

According to Article Two, Section Four of the United States Constitution:
“The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” It’s worth noting that “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” is uh…up for interpretation.

Oh, and while impeachment may happen at the state level, in this video we’re just going to focus on every impeachment in American history at the federal level.

According to Article One, Section Two, Clause Five of the Constitution, the U.S. House of Representatives are the only ones who have the power to impeach. First, a U.S. Representative must introduce an impeachment resolution. ANY member of the House of Representatives may do this against ANY federal public official. Not just the President, Vice President, members of the Cabinet, and other federal officials in the executive branch…but also judges and even members of Congress! The resolution is then referred to a committee- usually the House Judiciary Committee, which investigates the charges against the public official and decides whether or not to recommend ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT. If they do recommend it, it goes to the entire House of Representatives for a vote, baby. If a majority of the House votes in favor of ANY of the articles of impeachment, that official is impeached.