Arrgh! Ali Velshi keeps misdefining what Impeachment means
He keeps saying that the House impeached Clinton but that the Senate did not vote to impeach him.
Bill Clinton was impeached. Impeachment is the bringing of charges, the same way an indictment is the bringing of charges. That’s it. Once the House votes to approve an article(s) of impeachment, the impeachment part of the process is over. Done.
The process then moves to a TRIAL in the Senate, where the president is found guilty or innocent of the charges for which he was impeached (ie: indicted).
We would never say that a person who was indicted, went to trial and was found not guilty was “not indicted by the jury.” No, they were indicted by the government and found innocent by the jury. But we continue to hear that the Senate “did not vote to impeach Clinton.”
Why people don’t get this when it comes to what impeachment is is a mystery.