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In an oped in @WSJ, “A Partisan Impeachment, a Profile in Courage,” @VP Pence notes that JFK singled out Sen Edmund Ross of Kansas, who voted against impeaching President Andrew Johnson, in Profiles In Courage wsj.com/articles/a-par…
You can read more about this hagiographic view of Sen Ross here

senate.gov/reference/comm…
Ross does have his detractors —

historynewsnetwork.org/article/173849
Johnson was a loathsome racist and a horrible president but the law he was impeached for violating — the Tenure of Office Act — was ultimately found unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court. Anyway, for history buffs, enjoy.
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VP Pence has written an op-ed celebrating the Republican Senator Edmund Ross, the decisive vote in not convicting Democrat Andrew Johnson during his impeachment trial in 1868 (no link for you!)
.@JeremiSuri has a strong op-ed showing the absurdity and historical illiteracy of this argument, especially given the considerable evidence that it was no "profile in courage" but an act of bribery that swayed Ross cnn.com/2020/01/18/opi…
@JeremiSuri We can just pause for a second right there, yes, bribery, huh, how funny, that's odd, hmm, yes, well
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.@VP Mike Pence’s recent piece in the @WSJ, “A Partisan Impeachment, a Profile in Courage,” is a total perversion of JFK's legacy and the meaning of courage. As Kennedy's grandson, and a member of the Profiles in Courage Award Committee, I took special interest. THREAD ↓
.@VP draws upon JFK’s book PROFILES IN COURAGE and the example of Edmund G. Ross, a Republican Senator who broke with his party to oppose the impeachment of President Johnson in 1865.
.@VP is right to celebrate Ross, a public servant who, foreseeing his own defeated, nonetheless summoned the courage to vote his conscience, and put the national interest above his own. But let’s not be confused.
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1) This fine afternoon, I would like to start digging into the rules of the house regarding impeachment.

First, let's consult the House Rules committee.

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No results. Okay then.
2) Here we go!

"The House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House is a reference source for information on the rules and selected precedents governing the House procedure."

This should be useful.

govinfo.gov/collection/hou…
3) Here's the version adopted by the 115th congress and still in place today as of March 2017.

govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GP…

Ah, impeachment! Page 613 of the PDF. Read along with me.
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There is ALOT of arguing about the legal #Impeachment process, so I thought I would lay the steps out for you.

Regarding the #ImpeachTrump campaign,
I am not the right person to answer if the laws are being followed by The House against the impeachment of @POTUS
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The Constitution lays out two specific actions, treason and bribery, that could lead to impeachment and removal of a president from office.

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High crimes and misdemeanors
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High crimes and misdemeanors and NOT defined in the Constitution.

▫First, an impeachment resolution must be introduced by a member of the House of Representatives.
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