The House has voted to censure Rep. Al Green (D-TX) following his shouting during President Donald Trump’s recent address to ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

In 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel. In 1868, the Republican-dominated U.S.

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The scandal: Congress passed a law barring Andrew Johnson from firing the secretary ... It was the first impeachment of a president in U.S. history. Why it was bad: Johnson was doing what Congress ...

Impeachment is the constitutionally specified ... Justice Samuel Chase of the Supreme Court in 1805, against President Andrew Johnson in 1867, and against President William Jefferson Clinton ...

Only three U.S. presidents have been impeached: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Trump. All were acquitted in the Senate and were not removed from office. Former President Richard ...

as the president did, we can do it. How do I know? Because in 1868, Andrew Johnson was impeached for speaking ill of the House of Representatives. Impeachment is not all that the scholars would ...

Legacy: Andrew Johnson’s racism and antipathy towards African-American civil rights were a harbinger for similar attitudes to come during Reconstruction. The first president to be impeached—but not ...

as the president did, we can do it. How do I know? Because in 1868, Andrew Johnson was impeached for speaking ill of the House of Representatives. Impeachment is not all that the scholars would ...