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...House committee approves, then the full House, calling itself "the grand inquest of the nation," decides by a simple majority whether to impeach, the equivalent of an indictment. If it does, the Senate becomes "the high court of impeachment," and conducts the trial; it can convict by a two-thirds majority of those present. Andrew Johnson, the lone President to be impeached, escaped conviction by one vote (35-19) after he attempted to fire his popular Secretary of War in defiance of a new law that forbade...
Leader Gerald Ford, seeking to impeach Justice William O. Douglas, argued that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be." Nixon's former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst has argued similarly that "you don't need facts to impeach a President," just votes...
...overriding responsibility compels the House to begin such an investigation, and that is its constitutional role in the process of impeachment. To call upon the House to impeach President Nixon now would clearly be premature, but the House would be tardy in fulfilling its obligations if it did not begin considering that possibility. That 50 Congressional requests have been filed with the Library of Congress for information about impeachment indicates that the procedure is being widely considered. Such consideration ought to take an organized form -- a committee sanctioned by the House...
...Congress does not like that situation, Kleindienst added, it can always "cut off our funds, abolish most of what we can do or impeach the President." But, asked North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, how could the President be impeached if no one in the Executive Branch could be compelled to testify or supply evidence in the impeachment proceedings? Answered Kleindienst, in an amazing interpretation of proper legal procedure: "You don't need facts to impeach a President...
Last November, the tribal council at Pine Ridge voted to condemn the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building. A tribal court order enjoined Means and another AIM leader, Severt Young Bear, from assembling in Pine Ridge. In turn, AIM tried unsuccessfully to persuade the council to impeach Wilson, charging him with corruption. Dorothy Richards, secretary to the tribal court at Pine Ridge, explains: "Sioux are free-thinking people, but AIM demands total obedience. So we don't have too many AIM people here. Most of the ones in Pine Ridge are outsiders, and we hate people coming...