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Questions related to a legislative body formally bringing charges against a high-level government official. This usually starts a process that can end in removal from office.

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In the Trump impeachment hearings, why are so many witnesses heard?

There are two parts of the constitutional impeachable-offenses list that Trump can be charged with: bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors. The latter offense is problematic because the word 'misde …
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Why has Speaker Pelosi been so hesitant to impeach President Trump?

the impeachment. … Withholding Federal aid to a country unless they help to smear a political opponent is black-and-white impeachment territory. …
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Does the Vice-President retain their tiebreaking vote during an impeachment trial of the Pre...

As such, there was no possible way for a presidential impeachment to occur without the appearance of bias on the vice president's part: he and the president were likely of different parties, different … the vice presidential role to be chosen by the president (and allowed senators to be directly elected and thus have the potential for partisanship), we have not significantly altered the presidential impeachment
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Grey area of "impeachment"

I find it best to use a similar process in law in order to describe the effective difference. In criminal law, the process of responding to the commission of a felony goes: An officer responds to t …
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In the US, what happens if Congressional subpoenas are defied?

Unfortunately, given William Barr's behavior towards obstructing the impeachment investigation, Democrats have very little trust that Barr would actually prosecute them, let alone let it get to sentencing …
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What is the purpose of the House investigation of what happened at the U.S. Capitol Building...

There is no longer any point in impeaching the former President. It is being convened to answer the kinds of questions the 9/11 commission did: the who, what, when, where, and why of the incident. Que …
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Why is Hunter Biden's testimony in the impeachment trial relevant?

Four reasons: Whataboutism. It's easy to make potshots at vague 'questionable' behavior without actually trying to get to the bottom of it and punish those responsible. Add to that a refusal to defe …
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