Opinion: Impeach a former president? Texas tried in 1841.
Leslie H. Southwick
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Republic of Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar stands frozen in time in front of the restored Historic Fort Bend County Courthouse in Downtown Richmond.Zach Haverkamp / Houston Community Newspapers
The most recent impeachment approved by the House of Representatives charged a president who has since left office with inciting an insurrection. A Senate trial looms. Though two or three examples of bringing delayed proceedings against other federal officials have been identified during the current controversy, no postmortem, as it were, consideration of impeachment of a president of the United States has ever occurred before. Is it valid to do so?