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40 Facts About the History of Impeachment (And The Presidents Who Couldn’t Escape Its Fate)

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31. All Impeachments Were for High Crimes and Misdemeanors

A ticket to former President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial. CBS News.

No president so far is known to have engaged in treason or bribery, or if any of them have, they were not prosecuted for it. All impeachment proceedings were for high crimes and misdemeanors, that murky category that is difficult to pinpoint objectively. Proving that they had done something wrong was actually a complicated, arduous process.

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