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In California, the process of impeachment has existed throughout its statehood allowing the State Legislature to remove certain officeholders. The State Assembly can initiate an impeachment, bringing about an impeachment trial in the State Senate through which an officeholder can be either suspended from office or removed from their office and disqualified from again holding state office.
The senators voted 51-48 against considering the first article of impeachment, with one Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, voting present. The vote to kill the second article split 51-49 ...
The most recent impeachment of a state governor occurred on January 14, 2009, when the Illinois House of Representatives voted 117–1 to impeach Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges; [195] he was subsequently removed from office and barred from holding future office by the Illinois Senate on January 29.
Less than two weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, Valadao said he voted for impeachment because Trump “was, without question, a driving force in the catastrophic events that took place on Jan. 6.”
The votes for the charge of obstruction of Congress were 229 in favor, 198 against, and 1 present: all Democrats voted in support, except Peterson, Van Drew, and Jared Golden, who voted against; [111] and Gabbard, who again voted "present"; [6] all Republicans voted against. Days before the impeachment vote, it was leaked that Jeff Van Drew was ...
Despite Raskin’s impeachment trial in the Senate, only seven Republicans voted to convict Trump. One of them, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, fist-bumped Vance when Monday’s certification process ...
Senate rules call for an impeachment trial to begin at 1 pm on the day after articles of impeachment are delivered to the Senate, except for Sundays. There is no timeframe requirement for when the managers must actually deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate. On the set date, senators are sworn in for the impeachment trial. [14]
Echoes of the 2020 impeachment trial against Donald Trump sparked a bitter exchange between California Senate candidates Rep. Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey at the U.S. Senate Candidate Forum on ...