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House Republicans rushed to impeach the homeland security secretary but are taking their time delivering the charges to the Senate, where a trial is likely to be over before it [...]

Impeachment was once seen as perhaps the most serious check on corruption and abuse of power developed by the founders. Now it looks in danger of becoming just another tool [...]

The first hearing in the impeachment inquiry comes as Republicans are grasping for evidence tying President Biden to his son's foreign business dealings. Top House Republicans are eyeing potential impeachment [...]

The state attorney general's trial in the Senate has featured clashes between larger-than-life Texas lawyers with long histories, in court and with one another. From the start, the courtroom drama [...]

The Texas attorney general pleaded not guilty to accusations of corruption and abuse of office in what is expected to be a lengthy trial in the State Senate. Ken Paxton, [...]

The move by the State Assembly sets the stage for what could be the state's first impeachment effort in more than a century. New York State lawmakers on Thursday opened [...]

The Republicans who broke with their party to find Donald J. Trump guilty were an eclectic group, bound by their shared lack of concern about retribution from the former president [...]

The four-term Maine senator, who crossed party lines to vote against President Clinton's impeachment, must now decide whether to break with President Trump. WASHINGTON -- A few days after Senator [...]

LIMA, Peru -- President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski survived a bid by Congress on Thursday to remove him from office over allegations linking him to a graft scandal that has rattled [...]

SOMETHING rather dangerous is happening in American politics right now, all the more so for being taken for granted by many of the people watching it unfold. I do not [...]

WASHINGTON -- Democrats cannot get enough of Republicans talking about impeaching President Obama. They are using it to raise money and claim to have collected $1 million on Monday alone. [...]

Rather than getting on with the country's business and focusing solely on can't-wait issues before they jet out of town this weekend -- like the unfinished bill to fix veterans' [...]

Pakistan's civilian leaders stirred a new political hornet's nest by declaring their intention to impeach President Pervez Musharraf. It is not certain whether they will succeed, but it is clear […]

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's congressional allies dealt a major blow to efforts to oust her over allegations that she rigged last year's election, using their dominating majority -- and the […]

Leaders of the United Democratic Front in Parliament opened a bid to impeach President Bingu wa Mutharika, left, who quit the party in a bitter feud with his predecessor, Bakili […]

Talk of trying to impeach President Roh Moo Hyun gained momentum in the National Assembly. The country's second-largest political opposition party, the Millennium Democratic Party, said it planned to submit […]

The 10 state lawmakers charged with considering whether to recommend the impeachment of Gov. John G. Rowland left unresolved the big question of the day: What standard will they follow […]

Al Gore may have given the speech of his life accepting his party's nomination last week. But he avoided mentioning the elephant in the room: the impeachment of President Bill […]

President Clinton attends at least one fund-raiser a week. He is used to the hors d'oeuvres, the banter, the elegant surroundings. But his New York visit yesterday to a stylish […]

Six months after Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist adjourned the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, Senate leaders have sent souvenirs to the White House lawyers and the House managers who […]

Fund-raisers for both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party have discovered that invoking the impeachment of President Clinton still dredges up raw emotions and motivates Americans to write checks […]

The Parliament is priming itself for a vote to impeach the President on charges that he brought Russia to ruin. The President's men talk darkly of dumping the Prime Minister, […]

Russian parliamentary leaders voted today to delay indefinitely a planned vote on the impeachment of President Boris N. Yeltsin, stepping back from another showdown between the Kremlin and the Parliament. […]

After four years in which House Republicans dominated Congress, bringing their party its legislative energy as well as its public relations disasters and the impeachment drive, power has shifted on […]

As many Republicans struggle to move beyond impeachment, they find their party fractured by a hard reality: many other Republicans, particularly conservatives, do not want to move beyond impeachment. Those […]

The Senate's acquittal of President Clinton brings relief to a scandal-weary country, but it ushers in a new era of distrust in Washington. For all their pledges to seek a […]

It was a political cliffhanger of the highest order until well into the fateful roll-call and still, nearly 131 years later, the final Senate deliberations over the impeachment of Andrew […]

Ask Republican Presidential prospects about the biggest issue facing their party -- whether President Clinton should be convicted by the Senate -- and you'll probably get something short of a […]

IN 1386 which was a long, long time ago -- one Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, confronted a destiny in medieval England that resonates to this day. He […]

Robert H. Bork, the one-time Supreme Court nominee whose prickly, conservative pronouncements have made him a beacon for right-leaning politicians and jurists, finds himself in an odd position of late, […]

HISTORY won't leave the Frelinghuysens alone. In December, Representative Rodney P. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, a moderate Republican, voted to impeach President Clinton. In 1974, his father, Peter H. B. […]

Cable News Network asked the Senate today to open its deliberations in the impeachment trial of President Clinton, declaring that 'no subject of the Senate should be subject to more […]

Representative Tom Campbell knew his vote to impeach the President would make some people unhappy. In December, when he was part of a small group of moderate Republicans who had […]

For weeks, the feverish guessing game had focused on whether a swing group of as many as a half-dozen Republican senators might buck their colleagues and side with Democrats in […]

A White House lawyer accused House prosecutors today of resorting to 'word games' and 'legal mumbo jumbo' in their efforts to prove President Clinton guilty of impeachment charges. The lawyer, […]

Senator Rick Santorum, the conservative Pennsylvania Republican, has been a strident critic of President Clinton, once accusing him of telling 'bald-faced untruths.' But these days, with Mr. Clinton's fate in […]

No doubt a book will be written someday soon detailing the many cautionary tales of the 105th Congress, which just ended. It was a session marked by runaway partisan rancor, […]

The debating chamber doors were masked today to prevent early peeking at the bar of the Senate where tables for contending lawyers had been set up along with other trappings […]

When the impeachment trial of President Clinton resumes on Thursday, the House and the White House will not only be arguing over whether the President should be removed from office. […]

Two Democratic Senators said today that they would try to change the 19th-century Senate rule requiring closed sessions for all debates on impeachment in which senators speak, but odds are […]

Senator Trent Lott, the majority leader, said tonight that the Senate was getting 'closer and closer' to a plan for a full trial of President Clinton that could last into […]

Last month, they voted for articles of impeachment that call for the removal of President Clinton from office. Two days later, they urged the Senate to consider censuring, not removing, […]

As Senator Trent Lott moves from meeting to meeting in search of a bipartisan plan for an impeachment trial, he says he wants a formula that is fair to all […]

Senator Trent Lott, the majority leader, announced today that he expected Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to open the impeachment trial of President Clinton on Thursday. Mr. Lott said he […]

With a new Congress set to be sworn in this week, several influential Senators said today that President Clinton should postpone his State of the Union Message if the Senate […]

AS the Senate returns to Washington this week to begin an impeachment trial of the President, the airwaves and Op-Ed pages are filled with prophecies of doom. A year of […]

To the Editor: Re 'Sound Advice From the Senate' (editorial, Dec. 28): Since President Clinton denies that he is guilty of what the articles of impeachment charge, any penalty imposed […]

To the Editor: A Dec. 28 editorial, 'Sound Advice From the Senate,' praises Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan for reasoning that President Clinton's conduct 'does not reach the level of high […]