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To impeach means to formally accuse an official of a crime. Who has the “sole power of impeachment” in the Constitution?

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The United States Constitution provides that the House of Representatives "shall have the sole Power of Impeachment" ( Article I, section 2 ) and that "the Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments… ... In the case of presidential impeachment trials, the chief justice of the United States presides.

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