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 ...

Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse ...

Impeachment is the constitutionally specified ... Justice Samuel Chase of the Supreme Court in 1805, against President Andrew Johnson in 1867, and against President William Jefferson Clinton ...

Millions of people tuned in to watch the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. But very few were able to see what it was like behind the scenes, as Clinton’s legal team set up camp in the ...

Legacy: Andrew Johnson’s racism and antipathy towards African-American civil rights were a harbinger for similar attitudes to come during Reconstruction. The first president to be impeached—but not ...

Before him, Andrew Johnson faced formal ... harassment lawsuit led to his impeachment by the House in 1998. He was acquitted by the Senate and remained president until his second term ended ...

shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. In the debates in the ... impeachments—Justice Samuel Chase, and Presidents Andrew Johnson and William Jefferson Clinton—have ended in acquittals ...

The White House is calling for an end to the six-month-old impeachment inquiry ... on the part of the president. In a scathing letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, White House Counsel Ed Siskel ...

Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction effort following the president's assassination. Conflicts with the Radical Republican Congress and his own ineptness led to an impeachment trial ...