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Legal Lessons From the Impeachment Process

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Legal Lessons From the Impeachment Process
President Donald Trump speaks about his Senate impeachment trial in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 6, 2020. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Ronald J. Rychlak
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The impeachment ordeal is finally over, at least for the time being. It was the third such trial in American history. The first two were of Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. (Richard Nixon resigned before he was impeached.) As happened with Johnson and Clinton, the Senate decided not to remove President Trump from office.

Ronald J. Rychlak
Ronald J. Rychlak
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Ronald J. Rychlak is the Jamie L. Whitten chair in law and government at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of several books, including “Hitler, the War, and the Pope,” “Disinformation” (co-authored with Ion Mihai Pacepa), and “The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East” (co-edited with Jane Adolphe).
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