For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

Ross was a Republican, and was naturally expected to support Johnson’s impeachment. “Public opinion in the nation ran heavily against the President; he had intentionally broken the law and ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has agreed to Senate conservatives’ request that he delay sending two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas until next week.

Subsequently, there have been several attempts to begin impeachment proceedings against particular justices, but none has ever prevailed in the House. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the ...

He resigned from office on August 9, 1974. Johnson’s impeachment in 1868 was the culmination of a bitter dispute between the president and the Republican-controlled House over Reconstruction ...