President Reagan's nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Robert Bork, found his nomination defeated in the Senate. His name subsequently became a verb, meaning 'to attack or defeat a nominee unfairly through an organized campaign of harsh public criticism or vilification'.
By a vote of 96-3, Ford was easily confirmed. Click to learn who the three dissenting votes were.
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The House impeached President Donald J. Trump for a second time, an unprecedented feat in U.S. history, on charges of fomenting insurrection
The Senate failed, barely, to secure a two-thirds majority in favor of convicting President Andrew Johnson
