Impeachment removes a President from office...

Post #253,051 by ChrisR 4/22/06 11:05:29 PM Reply	Impeachment removes a President from office... ...so that they can stand trial. Impeachment would be more like a grand jury. Which brings up the question of whether an impeached president that was found not guilty in the subsequent trial. Could said President try to reclaim office?
Post #253,053 by dbishop 4/22/06 11:30:58 PM Reply	Not quite From [link\|http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/impeach/\|Legal Information Institute's Backgrounder on Impeachment]: The House of Representatives considers and debates the articles of impeachment. A majority vote of the entire House is required to pass each article. Once an article is approved, the President is, technically speaking, "impeached" -- that is subject to trial in the Senate. So "impeached" roughly means "indicted". It just means that there will be a trial in the senate. If that trial yields a "not guilty" verdict, the president doesn't have to reclaim office, as he was never removed from office. Although, from the same link as above: Technically, impeachment is the Senate's quasi-criminal proceeding instituted to remove a public officer, not the actual act of removal. Most references to impeachment, however, encompass the entire process, beginning with the House's impeachment inquiry.
Post #253,054 by Another Scott 4/22/06 11:33:56 PM 4/23/06 12:03:11 AM Reply	Not quite right. They're only removed from office on conviction. Impeachment is a formal list of charges, yes, like an indictment. But impeachment has no sanction - only conviction does. Johnson and Clinton were [link\|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment\|impeached] in the House. They weren't convicted in the Senate. They were not removed from office. Cheers, Scott. Edited by Another Scott April 23, 2006, 12:03:11 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #253,057 by dbishop 4/22/06 11:45:12 PM 4/22/06 11:45:49 PM Reply	nevermind Edited by dbishop April 22, 2006, 11:45:49 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #253,065 by Andrew Grygus 4/23/06 12:30:43 AM Reply	Yeah, Senate Republicans decided that . . . . . Clinton's definition of "is" had more long term value than a conviction would. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #253,067 by Another Scott 4/23/06 12:36:18 AM Reply	If that was their thinking, ... they were probably right. It's hard to imagine Bush winning against Gore if Clinton had been removed, considering the [link\|http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/20/impeachment.poll/\|approval ratings Clinton had at the time]: December 20, 1998 Web posted at: 10:48 p.m. EST (0348 GMT) (AllPolitics, December 20) -- In the wake of the House of Representatives' approval of two articles of impeachment, Bill Clinton's approval rating has jumped 10 points to 73 percent, the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll shows. That's not only an all-time high for Clinton, it also beats the highest approval rating President Ronald Reagan ever had. At the same time, the number of Americans with an unfavorable view of the Republican Party has jumped 10 points; less than a third of the country now has a favorable view of the GOP. Emphasis added. Cheers, Scott. (Who had forgotten that little emphasized tidbit.)

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