Impeachment is a power only used in extreme cases .
====History of federal impeachment proceedings in the United States====Congress regards impeachment as a power to be used only in extreme cases ; the House of Representatives has initiated impeachment proceedings only 64 times since 1789 ( most recently the 2010 impeachment , then removal from office , of Judge Thomas Porteous of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ) with only the following 19 of these proceedings actually resulting in the House 's passing Articles of Impeachment : * Two presidents :
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