Impeachment of a Federal Official in the United States
Image: Portion of the 2021 House Resolution impeaching President Trump.
Impeachment (U.S.)
Learn about the impeachment process, how a president may be banned for life from holding the office again, and which presidents have been impeached.
1806 portrait of Alexander Hamilton by Alex Trumbull.
The Federalist Papers on Impeachment
In two essays published in a New York newspaper in 1788, Alexander Hamilton defended the impeachment mechanism outlined in the yet-to-be adopted U.S. Constitution proposed at the Constitutional Convention. These two essays, part of the 85 essays that collectively comprise the Federalist Papers, now provide jurists with important insights into how the authors of the Constitution intended impeachment to work.