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wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoNo confidence votes are a referendum that forces a new vote. Impeachment is done by representatives and kicks off a process that gets blocked by the senate and results in no change, ever.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It was ridiculously political (shocker) and a lot more complicated, but the simple explanation is that the case against Nixon was so solid that he preemptively resigned to save face and get a pardon.
So not a true impeachment but effectively the only successful one.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It still didn’t result in a conviction and removal from office
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It was legal (adjacent) action that resulted in removing a criminal from office.
The rest is just nitpicking.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
*in the USA
Other countries exist with that mechanism and have had successful impeachments.
It’s more that one side of the fence has so many more times that’s it’s been able to happen. How many leaders in impeachable countries have their been vs countries with a non-confidence vote instead?
Could just be different scales here.