llowing criminal acts “Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” So, then these words mean that Congress can’t and isn’t able to impeach presidents, federal judges, or any other officials simply because Congress doesn’t agree with their decisions or policies. Truly this statement implies that only serious criminal conviction and not political conflicts can result in impeachment. However politics was the reason of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1867. Johnson was a southern Democrat who was and stayed loyal to the Union. Abraham Lincoln choose him as the vice president in 1864 gesturing national unity. The Republican House impeached Johnson on a party-line vote, but shortly after a month-long trial in the Senate, the “guilty” vote fell one short of the two-thirds needed for him to be removed. Also President Richard Nixon in 1974 resigned after recommended impeachment by the House Judiciary Committee but before a vote by the full House. Nixon was the only President to ever resign the Presidential Office. He did this in order to escape full impeachment by the House of Representatives and a full guilty conviction trial by the Senate.Politics was also a factor in the impeachment investigation brought by the House against President Clinton in 1998. Bill Clinton is the nation's third President in history (after Andrew Johnson in 1867 and Richard Nixon in 1973) to be prosecuted of an impeachment investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives. The voting allowing an investigation against Clinton was 1998 by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr who gave evidence and proof of impeachable offenses which include perjury, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and also the so called “abuse of power,” presidential power that is. The Starr Report states in graphic details of Clinton’s sexual affair with the young White House intern Monica Lewinsky...
