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NoGoodNamesLeft

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5. This is what would be required...
Sun Dec 11, 2016, 09:00 PM
Dec 2016

The U.S. Constitution provides impeachment as the method for removing the president, vice president, federal judges, and other federal officials from office. The impeachment process begins in the House of Representatives and follows these steps:

1. The House Judiciary Committee holds hearings and, if necessary, prepares articles of impeachment. These are the charges against the official.

2. If a majority of the committee votes to approve the articles, the whole House debates and votes on them.

3. If a majority of the House votes to impeach the official on any article, then the official must then stand trial in the Senate.

4. For the official to be removed from office, two-thirds of the Senate must vote to convict the official. Upon conviction, the official is automatically removed from office and, if the Senate so decides, may be forbidden from holding governmental office again.



House Judiciary Committee Members: https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-members/ (Would only need 4 Republicans to vote to approve article of impeachment from this list.)

It would require 24 House Republicans or Independents to vote to impeach.

It would require 3 Senate Republicans or Independents to convict.



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