Analysis: No time to impeach Trump? History disagrees.
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow April 23 at 4:34 PM Democratic leaders clearly don’t want to impeach President Trump. And the reasons for their apprehension are clear: Impeachment is an arduous, brutal process, and we’ve seen how it can backfire on the impeaching party. What’s more, Democrats would perhaps be better served focusing on the issues Real People care about.
“If, for the next year, year and a half, going right into the heart of the election, all that the Congress is talking about is impeaching Trump and Trump, Trump, Trump, and Mueller, Mueller, Mueller, and we’re not talking about health care, we’re not talking about raising the minimum wage to a living wage,” Sanders said, before concluding: “What I worry about is that works to Trump’s advantage.”
The first president to be impeached was Andrew Johnson. After a dispute about his powers to remove and appoint Cabinet officials, the House voted to impeach him Feb. 24, 1868. The process went like this:The timeline for Clinton’s 1998-1999 impeachment was somewhat similar:
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