How to Impeach?

Steve Russell
10 min readDec 21, 2019
Hottest Ticket in Town in 1999. Public Domain photo courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.

“How?” may be at least as important as “Why?”

The owner’s manual for U.S. government is supposed to be the Constitution. Impeachment is first mentioned in Article I, Section 2:

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)