T he U.S. House of Representatives voted on 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson on February 24, 1868. Nine of those articles cited Johnson’s removal of Secretary of War ...

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 ...

We speak with Democratic Congressmember Al Green of Texas a day after he was censured by the House of Representatives for ...

President Donald Trump's handling of the Ukraine war has upset many Americans, but does it rise to the level of impeachment?

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 ...

On Feb. 24, 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson by a vote of 126-47 following his ...

Millions of people tuned in to watch the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. But very few were able to see what it was like behind the scenes, as Clinton’s legal team set up camp in the ...

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 ...

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 ...