Any Federal Appointee can be impeached in addition to elected civil servants;
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Date of Impeachment Accused Office Accusation(s)
Jul/07/1797 William Blount United States Senator (Tennessee) Conspiring with Britain to for capture of Spanish territory
Mar/02/1803 John Pickering Judge (District of New Hampshire) Drunkenness and unlawful rulings
Mar/12/1804 Samuel Chase Associate Justice (Supreme Court of the United States) Promotion go s partisan political attitude and political bias
Apr/24/1830 James H. Peck Judge (District of Missouri) Misuse of power
May/06/1862 West Hughes Humphreys Judge (Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Tennessee) Supporting the Confederacy
Feb/24/1868 Andrew Johnson President of the United States Tenure of Office Act violation
Feb/28/1873 Mark W. Delahay Judge (District of Kansas) Drunkenness
Mar/02/1876 William W. Belknap United States Secretary of War Corruption/graft
Dec/13/1904 Charles Swayne Judge (Northern District of Florida) Abuse of power, failure to live in his district
Jul/11/1912 Robert Wodrow Archbald Associate Justice (United States Commerce Court) Judge (Third Circuit Court of Appeals) Improper acceptance of gifts from litigants and attorneys
Apr/01/1926 George W. English Judge (Eastern District of Illinois) Abuse of power
Feb/24/1933 Harold Louderback Judge (Northern District of California) Corruption
Mar/02/1936 Halsted L. Ritter Judge (Southern District of Florida) Champerty/corruption, evasion of law, practicing law while being a judge
Jul/22/1986 Harry E. Claiborne Judge (District of Nevada) Evasion of tax
Aug/03/1988 Alcee Hastings Judge (Southern District of Florida) Accepting a bribe, and committing perjury during the resulting investigation
May/10/1989 Walter Nixon Chief Judge (Southern District of Mississippi) Perjury
Dec/19/1998 Bill Clinton President of the United States Perjury and obstruction of justice
Jun/19/2009 Samuel B. Kent Judge (Southern District of Texas) Sexual assault, and obstruction of justice during the investigation of the charges against him
Mar/11/2010 Thomas Porteous Judge (Eastern District of Louisiana) Making false financial disclosures
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Most impeachments are not successful -- Sessions' Senate buddies will never impeach him. He may resign though if Mueller or others get too close to indictment -- that is the way things work in DC ... just like Reagan's AG Edwin Meese III resigned at the close of the Wedtech investigation.