and Richard Nixon, who resigned to avoid being impeached in connection with the Watergate scandal. The rarely-used procedure is spelled out in Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution ...

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day Franklin ...

Texas congressman Al Green has filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Here's what happens if they ...

The Constitution does not set a limit on how many times a president can be impeached. Although Trump was impeached twice ...

The closest historical precedent for Biden's preemptive acts of clemency is the pardon that President Gerald Ford granted to his predecessor, Richard ... Nixon resigned to avoid an impeachment ...

In 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon ... he escaped likely impeachment by resigning. Essentially, Ford pardoned Nixon for offences he may have committed or ...

The revelations came in part from the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Danielle R. Sassoon, who resigned rather than heed ...

The Politics of Presidential Mercy, by Jeffrey Toobin “When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin writes in his new book, “The Pardon: The Politics of ...

Danielle Sassoon can’t be dismissed as some kind of liberal deep-stater. Her résumé suggests anything but: registered Republican; participant in the Federalist Society; former law clerk to two ...