if the president is impeached what does it mean?
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Impeachment is the process by which a legislative body levels charges against a government official. Impeachment does not in itself remove the official definitively from office; it is similar to an indictment in criminal law, and thus it is essentially the statement of charges against the official.
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The Constitution gives Congress the authority to impeach and remove "The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States" upon a determination that such officers have engaged in treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. ... Federal judges are subject to impeachment.
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Impeachment in the United States is the process by which a legislature (usually in the form of the lower house) brings charges against a civil officer of government for crimes alleged to have been committed, analogous to the bringing of an indictment by a grand jury.
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The impeached official remains in office until a trial is held. That trial, and removal from office if convicted, is separate from the act of impeachment itself. In impeachment proceedings, the defendant does not risk forfeiture of life, liberty, or property.
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Article II, Section 2 provides: [The President] ... ... The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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The process is started by a two-thirds majority vote of the Parliament to impeach the president, whereupon the Constitutional Court decides whether the President is guilty of the crime of which he is charged. If he is found guilty, he is removed from power. No Bulgarian President has ever been impeached.
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Likewise, if a vice president succeeds to the presidency by way of the president's death, resignation or removal (via impeachment) from office, that person does not hold the title of president-elect, as they would become president immediately. ...
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The president, vice president, and all civil officers of the United States are subject to impeachment. ... In impeachment proceedings, the House of Representatives charges an official of the federal government by approving, by majority vote, articles of impeachment.
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It is the scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled. If a president dies, resigns, or is removed from office by impeachment, the vice-president succeeds to the office. " In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become president."
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The Constitution limits grounds of impeachment to "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors". The precise meaning of the phrase "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" is not defined in the Constitution itself.
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One, former judge Alcee Hastings, was elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives after being removed from office. No President impeached by the House has been removed from office.
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The impeached official remains in office until a trial is held. That trial, and removal from office if convicted, is separate from the act of impeachment itself.
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Since 2013, the process can be started by at least three-fifths of present senators, and must be approved by at least three-fifths of all members of Parliament. Also, the President can be impeached for high treason (newly defined in the Constitution) or any serious infringement of the Constitution.
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The president and judges, including the chief justice of the supreme court and high courts, can be impeached by the parliament before the expiry of the term for violation of the Constitution. ... No president has faced impeachment proceedings.
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The Constitution gives the House of Representatives the sole power to impeach an official, and it makes the Senate the sole court for impeachment trials. The power of impeachment is limited to removal from office but also provides for a removed officer to be disqualified from holding future office.
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Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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There, conviction on any of the articles requires a two-thirds majority vote and results in the removal from office. Three United States presidents have been impeached: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Donald J. Trump in 2019.