HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday [9-24-19] that the House would launch a formal impeachment inquiry in response to the dispute over Mr. Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his potential 2020 rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The rising furor has heightened interest in how the impeachment process works. Here’s what you need to know: What is impeachment? The Constitution permits Congress to remove presidents before their term is up if enough lawmakers vote to say that they committed ‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.’ Only two presidents have been impeached — Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998 — and both were ultimately acquitted and completed their terms in office. Richard M. Nixon resigned in 1974 to avoid being impeached.”
–Charlie Savage, “How the Impeachment Process Works,” The New York Times online, September 24, 2019