Why Donald Trump’s impeachment should not be as meaningless as Andrew Jackson’s censure
Smith, L.
(19 January 2021)
Why Donald Trump’s impeachment should not be as meaningless as Andrew Jackson’s censure.
USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog.
Last week, Donald Trump became the first president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives. Drawing comparisons with President Andrew Jackson’s congressional censure in 1834, Laura Ellyn Smith writes that impeachment without removal from office, or preventing Trump from holding office again, would establish impeachment as a merely symbolic act with little power to deter presidential overreach.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2021 The Author |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 16 Mar 2021 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/108843 |