Saturday, November 19, 2011

How does the impeachment process of a governor of PA work?

I know it solely depends on House of Representatives, but does impeachment only require reps. from PA? I can't imagine it being all 435 rep. members. But maybe it is... Any insight would be much appreciated.





I'm just curious, because I'm wondering if there's ANY hope of Corbett being impeached (fingers crossed).|||Impeachment is done by the state House of Representatives (not the federal one), and impeachment would require a majority vote of the 203 members of that body.





Once a governor is impeached, there is a trial in the state senate, and he's removed if two-thirds of the 50 senators vote to convict.





In other words, it's pretty much identical to the process to remove the president, only it takes place in the State Assembly instead of Congress.

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