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THIS is fertile ground for inquiry and speculation.It is indeed true that US Congress members, despite their reputation for toughness, feistiness and partisanship, have not laid a glove on a single US vice president; they have not hit them with the hammer of impeachment or accused them vaguely of betrayal of public trust or graft.There is a curious reason why the United States House of Representatives has not impeached even one vice president in the chamber’s over 200 years of history.
Blount was impeached by the House in 1797 for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” accused of having conspired to launch a military expedition to conquer Spanish territory in the American southwest for Great Britain. The Senate dismissed the impeachment charges because it had already expelled Blount.In his capacity as president of the Senate, the vice president may preside over most impeachment trials of federal officers, although the Constitution does not specifically require it.
The US Congress Has Not Impeached Single Vice President In Its Over 200-Year History
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