https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz The Nonlegislative Power en-us 2018-10-24 20:10:00 UTC 2018-10-24 20:37:18 UTC hello@padlet.com 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296674325 To accuse, bring charges. The senate has the power to sit as a count and impeach cases. The penalty for conviction is to be removed from office. ]]> 2018-10-24 20:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296674325 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296675923 In total there have been 17 impeachments and seven conviction and all the seven people removed by the senate were federal judges. ]]> 2018-10-24 20:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296675923 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296676431 Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached by the House. Both of the men were found not guilty. ]]> 2018-10-24 20:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296676431 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296676870 He was the 17th president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Congress had passed the Tenure of Office Act even though the president had veto it. And because of this he wanted to get political revenge.]]> 2018-10-24 20:18:31 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296676870 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296678062 He was impeached by the House in 1998. They had voted two articles of impeachment on December 19. Both of the articles had claimed that the president had  inappropriate relationship with the intern. ]]> 2018-10-24 20:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296678062 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296678849 lying under oat]]> 2018-10-24 20:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296678849 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296679658 2018-10-24 20:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296679658 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296679791 2018-10-24 20:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296679791 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296680026 Nixon has resigned the presidency in 1974 and then for his second term he was cut off from office because of the Watergate Scandal.]]> 2018-10-24 20:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296680026 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296680496 June 1972 Republicans tried to break into the Democratic Party headquarters. So many people like the media had been on track on it and the first people to report it was the Washington Post. ]]> 2018-10-24 20:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296680496 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296681296 The House Judiciary Committee had voted three articles of impeachment against Nixon. In which he was charged with obstruction of justice, abuse of power and the failure to respond to the committees subpoena. ]]> 2018-10-24 20:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296681296 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296682191 is a legal order directing one to appear in court and/or to produce certain evidence. And Nixon had ignored them all.]]> 2018-10-24 20:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296682191 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296682816 2018-10-24 20:34:13 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296682816 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296682966 2018-10-24 20:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296682966 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296683100 The Constitution gives two executive power to the Senate. One of those powers has to do with appointments to office, and the other with treaties made by the president. ]]> 2018-10-24 20:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296683100 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296683471 The major appointments made by the president have to be confirmed by the senate by the majority vote.]]> 2018-10-24 20:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296683471 340175 https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296683828 Only 12 of now more than 600 Cabinets appointments have been rejected]]> 2018-10-24 20:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/340175/44e6qjxi2gvz/wish/296683828