To: AgThorn
The report is correct as to Johnson's having been impeached.
"Impeachment" itself -- the passage of articles thereof -- is akin to an indictment: it begins, and describes (in the articles' text) the charges in, a trial.
The Senate either convicts or doesn't.
But one can be "impeached" without being convicted, of course, as has occurred both times.
Many people appear to believe "impeach" means "remove from office via conviction AFTER impeachment."
6 posted on
03/08/2004 1:06:27 PM PST by
pogo101
To: pogo101
"The Senate either convicts or doesn't...."
At the time I was very angry that the Senate did NOT convict and remove Klintoon.
In hindsight, had that happened, algore would most likely be Presidente still today because GW would not have unseated him due to the mass sympathy for his ascension to the throne.
25 posted on
03/08/2004 1:25:58 PM PST by
TRY ONE
(NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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