How does the impeachment of a president work?

What is the process in impeaching a president? thanks|||First charges have to be filed in the House. Then there is a vote and a majority have to agree to impeach the President. From there it moves to the Senate where they hold a trial and then vote whether or not to remove the President from office.





In the history of the United States only two Presidents have been impeached and both were politically motivated. None have ever been removed from office although Nixon did resign before the impeachment charges were filed.|||If Bush didn't get impeached, then there is no real process, or the process does not work.|||Basically the Senate acts as a judge and jury during an impeachment. After reviewing the evidence, they decide whether they should remove an elected official from office, and may recommend criminal charges.





Oh, and an impeachment is warranted when there is evidence that an elected official (not necessarily the POTUS) has committed a high crime or misdemeanor.





The impeachment is the hearing, not the removal from office.|||Well, first of all, he has to be accused of "high crimes and misdemeanors". Exactly what that means is still, to this day, debatable. He has to break the law. You can't impeach a president because you don't like the jeans he's wearing or because his wife wore shorts on their vacation.....Apparently Bush lying to the American public in order to start a phony war in which thousands of American and Iraqi citizens would be killed and that would make all his buddies rich doesn't even qualify as a crime..... As much as the conservatives would like to think that he has, Obama trying to reform healthcare, is not breaking a law.....|||I sure hope someone can figure out how to do it and make it work soon before we are no longer the United States of America and we are turned into something else.|||The House of Representatives drafts articles of impeachment. Only a simple majority in the House is needed to impeach the president.





Once the president is impeached, then there is a trial in the senate. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides. A two-thirds vote is required in the Senate to remove the president from office. Less than a two-thirds vote and he remains in office.|||Impeachment is the word for indictment for president. Clinton was impeached but wasn't convicted. Nixon was impeached and step down form office.





Impeachment works like indictments only they are made by congress.