AHC: US president is impeached for murder

In one of the last major acts before secession, the congress passes stringent new sodomy laws which mandate death for any man caught committing an act "contrary to nature".
Only in federal territories, to be sure!
(gasp in shock and horror at the idea of Congress doing something so awful as attempting to supplant state criminal law!)

;)
 
Your challenge is to have a president impeached for murder. It has to be a personal murder by the presidents own hands. Bonuses point for the number of people he can kill before he is caught. Double bonus if he kills someone in a high governmental position. You can only use otl presidents.

So unlike OTL, Tricky Dick gets caught?
 
Can you even take the President down because of murder? Doesn't he have sovereign immunity for those kinds of things?

Good lord no, this is the United States, not France.

Actually I believe it would be impossible to arrest the president. If a real life president was accused of murder, I think one of two things would happen. Either he would resign to "defend himself from the charges" (or more likely to prevent the other party from winning a landslide election on the "We're Not Murderers" platform) or he would be quickly and quietly impeached and convicted and then sent off to a real court for a trial.
 
Richard Nixon would never try to assassinate an enemy!

The text from the link in question:

In 1972, Anderson was the target of an assassination plot in the White House. Two Nixon administration conspirators admitted under oath they plotted to poison Anderson on orders from senior White House aide Charles Colson.

Could this find its way into the impeachment proceedings if it's carried out?
 
I don't know much about Burr, or about early 1800's dueling...

There was a whole cult of dueling in Federal-period New York (1785-1804). Almost every prominent NY political figure was involved in at least one duel. In the vast majority no one was killed or wounded, and many were aborted at the last minute on some excuse or apology.

The weapons used in the Burr-Hamilton duel were a set of pistols that had been used in several previous duels. I believe they belonged to a relative of Hamilton.

The cult was starting to fade after 1800 - and the shocking death of Hamilton shut it down completely.
 

katchen

Banned
Andrew Jackson draws first against the man who tried to assassinate him. He draws before the alleged assassin can touch his gun. Which makes it difficult for President Jackson to prove he acted in self-defence.
 
Another possibility: Jackson is rendered skittish by the assassination attempt and begins packing heat everywhere he goes. One evening he discharges his gun into the throat of an innocent Quaker who was reaching into his jacket for a pair of eyeglasses. The Quaker dies in a pool of blood, but Jackson is never arrested. The Whigs compare the president to a wicked European monarch, killing his wretched subjects on a whim. Jackson does himself no favors, showing no remorse and blaming the "old fool" for having "got in the way of my gun." Whigs portray Jackson as a coward with an itchy trigger finger. "Whose grandpa will scaredy Andy shoot next?" In 1836 a lame-duck coalition of Whigs and anti-Jacksonian Democrats narrowly vote to impeach, and the Whig-controlled senate easily votes to convict. Mere weeks before the end of his term, Jackson is removed from office and replaced by Martin Van Buren, who is also the president-elect.
 
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