Impeachment as a Political Tool

Only twice has the U.S. House of Representatives impeached a president, and never has the Senate voted to remove an impeached president from office. People tend to think of impeachment as a judicial tool that should be used rarely and only when a president has broken the law in some egregious way. But impeachment was designed as part of the checks-and-balances. It is a political tool. On this week’s episode of Words & Numbers, join Antony Davies and James Harrigan as they discuss what impeachment is and how the political process might work better if impeachment were used more often.

Come to FEEcon 2019! Show Notes:

Artificial intelligence learns to spot cancer

Employment changes over the past century

Sanders says that teacher salaries should start at $60,000

Foolishness of the week

MSNBC asks political candidate how MSNBC can do better for him

Topic of the week: Impeachment

How does impeachment work?

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