2007-06-11 09:53:17 · 12 answers · asked by uiop b 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I guess have an affair.
2007-06-11 09:55:39 · answer #1 · answered by punch 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Impeachment in the United States is an expressed power of the legislature which allows for formal charges to be brought against a civil officer of government for conduct committed in office. The actual trial on those charges, and subsequent removal of an official on conviction on those charges is separate from the act of impeachment itself: impeachment is analogous to indictment in regular court proceedings, trial by the other house is analogous to the trial before judge and jury in regular courts. Typically, the lower house of the legislature will impeach the official and the upper house will conduct the trial.
At the Federal level, the House of Representatives has the sole power of impeaching the President, Vice President and all other civil officers of the United States. Officials can be impeached for: "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." The United States Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments. The removal of impeached officials is automatic upon conviction in the Senate.
Impeachment can also occur at the state level; state legislatures can impeach state officials, including governors, according to their respective constitutions.
2007-06-11 09:58:12 · answer #2 · answered by Fluffy Wisdom 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Study your American History. There have been only two Presidents of the United States who have been impeached and both were acquitted.
2007-06-11 10:01:31 · answer #3 · answered by trebor namyl hcaeb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The actual terminology is "High crimes and Misdomenors," Which is defined as any usurption of power not Constitutionally granted to the Executive, OR any act that is not defined within the powers ascribed to him by the constitution in regards to the place of the executitive in the three branches re: the Legislative or the Judicial.
2007-06-11 09:57:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure. The religious fundies won't let bush get impeach for his acts of mass murder and torture, but they did manage to go after clinton for getting a BJ. I just don't understand the logic.
2007-06-11 09:57:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are brought up on trial before the Senate for breaking a law.
2007-06-11 09:56:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hummer in the Oval Office
Invading a country under false pretenses, causing thousands of soldiers death won't do it.
2007-06-11 09:56:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
lying before a grand jury...selling high tech guidance systems to china for campaign cash...giving nuclear tech to north korea that is now being used to make weapons and both of the previous being given to iran...thank you bill clinton!
2007-06-11 09:57:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Apparently you can screw the entire country, but you can't screw an intern.
2007-06-11 09:59:02 · answer #9 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Something involving sex. Otherwise, you're pretty much stuck with him.
2007-06-11 09:55:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋