Meet the other American who was impeached and tried after leaving office
00 p.m. ET tonight, House managers a single article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, kicking off a Senate trial whose arguments will start the week of Feb. 8. Several Republicans have coalesced around a defense of Trump — that, under the Constitution, you can’t impeach and remove someone who’s no longer in office./ But there is historical precedent for impeaching and trying to convict a former federal officeholder. In 1876, as the U.S. House of Representatives was ...
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