Impeachment Trial Quotes
This was America’s first Presidential impeachment which occurred just a few years after America’s greatest crisis—the Civil War. It was handled in an orderly, serious manner following the law throughout.
Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
Hamilton pointed out that there is always a philosophical conflict between impeachment of an elected official and the right of the people to choose their own representatives. Both have very important and noble reasons supporting them. The founding fathers compromised by allowing impeachment, but making it very difficult.
