Following the formal announcement of an impeachment inquiry into President Trump in 2019, Trump took to Twitter (now X) calling it a partisan “witch hunt” akin to an attempted coup. Looking at the last attempt at impeaching a sitting president, politicians and political commentators noted the Clinton impeachment was generally not supported by the public, viewed as overwhelmingly partisan, and harmful to the country and the same may be seen in the next presidential impeachment. However, as Alexander Hamilton describes in Federalist 65, this is the precise nature of impeachments: a political tool used to deal with political issues. In The Impeachment Power, Whittington analyzes impeachment and its process as well as the inherently political nature of impeachments. Whittington—in a thorough discussion of the impeachment process, political actors involved, and its place in American history—demonstrates impeachment is a powerful tool used by politicians as a means to promote political agendas and solve political problems.

As calls for and talks of impeachment seem ever present in today‘s politics, Whittington’s analysis of the impeachment process and its history provide a timely discussion of the politics involved as well as its potential future use. The book follows along the roadmap of the impeachment process a