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impeachmentJudicial procedure by which government officials are accused of wrongdoing and brought to trial before a legislative body. In the USA the House of Representatives may impeach offenders to be tried before the Senate, as in the case of President Andrew Johnson in 1868. Richard Nixon resigned the US presidency in 1974 when threatened by impeachment. President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial took place in 1999. |
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| nbsp;ended the Senate's role as a court of impeachment, a bipartisan censure resolution fell victim to Republican parliamentary roadblocks, thrown up by Sen. In what could be the greatest comeback since Nixon's, Evan Mecham, one year after his removal from the Arizona governor's office by a State Senate court of impeachment, declared his intention to return to that office in 1990. TODAY: The Senate reconvenes as a court of impeachment and entertains possible motions from House prosecutors, including one to make public the videotaped depositions of Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and Sidney Blumenthal. |
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