The impeachment...after the fact.. of one William Worth Belknap
“President Grant had accepted his resignation before the House voted on Belknap’s impeachment, later that same day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Belknap
this is what was being used as precedent.
beyond that I have no expertise
Yeah, but isn’t there a bit of a difference between a resignation being accepted in the morning and impeachment vote in the afternoon (especially in the late 1800s)? Hillary has been out of office for over a year and a half. I say this is merely to raise money for the outfit that’s shilling it.