If Clinton was impeached, why did he stay?

Question

Sorry, Im writing a paper on it.
In his second term he was impeached by the U.S. House [9], but was subsequently acquitted by the United States Senate and remained in office to complete his term.[10] - Wikepedia.
So you must be impeached by both house and senate? And did he have the right to stay if impeached by house and senate?

So Jackson,Nixon, and Clinton were impeached by the house but not the senate?

Answer 1

Impeachment is a process; akin to a legislative trial of the executive. Mr.Clinton's egregious behavior with at least one White House intern was found insufficient to forcibly remove him from office.

Answer 2

He was not convicted during the trial by the Senate, therefore he could stay.
Some of these answers are wrong. A president does not get impeached by the House and the Senate. The president gets impeached by the House and then gets tried by the Senate. President Johnson (Andrew not Lyndon) was also impeached but remained in office by one vote. President Clinton was impeached by the House and was not convicted by the Senate in what was for all purposes a partisan vote by both parties. I am a Republican and I thought it was BS and should never have happened. Incidentally President Clinton was later found to be guilty by the American Bar Association and was removed from the bar and no longer able to practice. This was for perjury.

Answer 3

Impeach is like being arrested. You still need to be tried. In this case, the House brings the charges, and the "trial" is in the Senate with the Chief Justice presiding. So he *was* impeached, but not convicted.

Interestingly enough, many Democrats had hoped he would have been convicted. By him vacating the White House, Al Gore would have taken over almost assuring his subsequent victory in 2000. Clinton's stubbornness, many on the left said, cost the Democrats traction that they are only now recovering.

Answer 4

Impeachment by House of Representatives is like the grand jury issuing an indictment. Then there is a trial. The trial is in the senate with the Chief justice of the Supreme Court Acting as judge. Just like in a criminal trial, there has to be a vote by the jury. in this case it is the 100 members of the senate (2 for ech state). Clinton was not convicted, he was found not guilty. being exonerated of the charges he was free to continue his term.

Nixon resigned before the senate trial. So he was never actually convicted and impeached.

Andrew Johnson was also impeached by the House but was not convicted by the Senate

Answer 5

Read the constitution. Impeachment by the House is only the bringing of charges. Then the president is tried in the Senate. He was not convicted and therefore not removed from office.

Answer 6

He wasn't exactly acquitted, the evidence was placed in the Ford building and the members of the Senate were invited to review everything that would be presented. One Senator whose name I don't remember went to in and came back and said that he thought he was going to throw up when he saw what was there . The rest of the Senate refused to look at the evidence there fore they could not make a decision and the impeachment was dropped .

Answer 7

The senate hears all impeachment cases and they are presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Clinton cut a deal to get his acquital, that meant censure and loss of law license. He stay because of that deal and the acquital.

Answer 8

He would have had to leave if impeached by both houses...

and he stayed because he knew he was the best damn president this country had seen in decades and it was the best thing for the people... too bad a lot of the public didnt see the same thing

Answer 9

He was impeached in the House for perjury and obstruction of justice.

If the Senate had convicetd him, he would have had to have gone bye bye.

Impeachment is the act of formally accusing a public official of crimes or serious misconduct. Under the Constitution, the power to impeach lies with the House of Representatives. The Senate conducts any trial that might result from an impeachment.

An official found guilty of impeachable offenses is subject to removal from office and disqualification from holding other federal posts.

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Congress regards impeachment as a power to be used only in extreme cases; the House has initiated impeachment proceedings only 62 times since 1789 (most recently President Clinton), and only the following 17 federal officers have been impeached:

Two presidents have been impeached:
Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 after violating the then-newly created Tenure of Office Act. President Johnson was acquitted of all charges by a single vote in the Senate.

Bill Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998 by the House of Representatives on grounds of perjury to a grand jury (by a 228–206 vote) and obstruction of justice (by a 221–212 vote). Two other articles of impeachment failed—a second count of perjury in the Jones case (by a 205–229 vote), and one accusing President Clinton of abuse of power (by a 148–285 vote). President Clinton was acquitted of the Obstruction charge by a 50 to 50 vote in the Senate.

One cabinet officer, William W. Belknap (Secretary of War). He resigned before his trial, and was later acquitted. Allegedly most of those who voted to acquit him believed that his resignation had removed their jurisdiction.

One Senator, William Blount (though the Senate had already expelled him).

Associate Justice Samuel Chase in 1804.
Twelve other federal judges, including Alcee Hastings, who was impeached and convicted for taking over $150,000 in bribe money in exchange for sentencing leniency. The Senate did not bar Hastings from holding future office, and Hastings won election to the House of Representatives from South Florida. Hastings' name was mentioned as a possible Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, but was passed over by House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi, presumably because of his previous impeachment and removal.

Many mistakenly assume Richard Nixon was impeached. While the House Judiciary Committee did approve articles of impeachment against him (by wide margins) and did report those articles to the full House, Nixon resigned prior to House consideration of the impeachment resolutions.

Answer 10

He was impeached. Republicans let him finish up his term.