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The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump last night,

a decision that fell almost entirely along party lines.

As I noted yesterday, some House members have been trying to impeach the president for years

and undoubtedly see yesterday's vote as a vindication of their efforts. On the opposite side

of the spectrum, some see the House Democrats as attacking the President unfairly, and are even more

likely to support him. This marks only the third time in American history a president has been impeached.

Few events in American political life are as potentially significant

and insignificant at the same time. There are three ways to interpret what happened in the House

of Representatives yesterday. In one sense, the House vote may change nothing. The Republican-controlled

Senate is widely expected to acquit the President when his

trial begins in early January. If it does, he will stay in office and will be free to run for

re-election in 2020. In a second sense, the House vote dramatically changes history. Even if the

Senate acquits the President, impeachment will forever be

part of the record of his administration, and if the Senate removes him from office,

America will obviously never be the same. In a third sense, we do not yet know the future

significance of yesterday's action. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House could at least

temporarily hold its articles of impeachment from the Senate, depending on how the latter

chooses to conduct its trial on the president's removal. Even if the Senate acquits the president,

we do not know the effect of impeachment on his future. President Andrew Johnson survived impeachment

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