Andrew Johnson was charged with an aactual crime, The crime was pursuant to an unConstitutional act passed by the Radical Republicans in Congress that made it a crime for him to fire a cabinet member. That is the same sort of “crime” that the Democrats are charging Trump with in that Congress is trying to assume the power of hiring and firing and of decision making over the Presidency. Congress has not passed any actual law this time, just made some unConstitutional assumptions. The Democrats are trying to make of the President a weak Prime Minister who works for Congress.
Glad to see someone mentioned Andrew Johnson.
The mass media and college professors don’t want to talk about that embarrassment.
The current impoopment was the second witch burning by Congress, not the first.
A SCOTUS decision in 1926 put a stake through the heart of Congress interfering with a President hiring and firing cabinet officers at will.
There would be no more attempts to impeach a President like what the Radical Republicans attempted against Andrew Johnson. A case BTW featured in Kennedy’s (ghostwritten) “Profiles in Courage”.
The SCOTUS case is Myers vs United States. I ran across it when I kept seeing freepers claim that “Trump can’t fire Jeff Sessions!! Obstruction! Congress! The Senate!”
That was all a load of manure. Myers gives Presidents, including Trump, sole authority over firing the AG. Or any other executive branch officer.