The constitution defines impeachment as high crimes or treason, and it states that a president can not pardon someone from impeachment, but there is no set way as to how the congress should go about impeaching a president.
If a congressman brings up impeachment articles against the president, but the speaker of the house says she doesn't want to hear it, how does the constitution protect itself from such collaborations?|||The House of Representatives vote to impeach a federal official (President, cabinet member, federal judge, etc.). It takes a simple majority to impeach someone. Then, after they have been impeached, they stand trial in the Senate, where it takes a super majority of 2/3 to remove a person from office. In the case of the President being impeached, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides over the trial.
The exact details of the procedure is not outlined in the Constitution, and is left to each House to come up with themselves.
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