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There actually are four,
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well five, provisions about impeachment in the Constitution.
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It's the most awesome power in the Constitution, in some ways,
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and it isn't wielded very often.
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The authority to impeach, of course, rests with the House of Representatives.
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It is the House of Representatives, through its judiciary committee,
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that investigates grounds for impeachment of a president
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or a cabinet official or a Supreme Court justice.
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It is the House of Representatives that then brings articles of impeachment,
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which in effect are like an indictment,
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although they are a political indictment
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and never intended to be a legal indictment.