Explainer: What it would take for U.S. Congress to impeach Trump


  • World
  • Monday, 22 Jul 2019

Storm clouds pass over the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, U.S. June 17, 2019. The dark cloud of impeachment has threatened President Donald Trump for many months, with Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, where any such effort to remove Trump from office would begin, divided about whether to proceed. Picture taken June 17, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

(Reuters) - A dark cloud of impeachment has threatened President Donald Trump for many months, with Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, where any such effort to remove him from office would begin, divided about whether to proceed.

In American politics, few procedures are as arduous or as divisive as the Constitution's carefully balanced law for ousting a chief executive found to be unfit to serve.

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