Maxine Waters weighs in on Barr

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12. Cabinet Secretaries, such as Attorney General, can be impeached.

William W. Belknap, Secretary of War under President Grant was impeached in 1876. He resigned before the House could vote on impeachment, but they impeached him anyway, prompting an argument over whether the Senate could try him after he had already resigned his post. They did try him, and the Senate voted 35-25 to convict him (only 60 Senators back then), which fell short of the 2/3 needed. (Several of the Senators voted to acquit, not because they thought he was innocent, but because they felt the Senate no longer had jurisdiction after the resignation.) So, technically, he was acquitted.

George Armstrong Custer was one of the witnesses against Belknap. His testimony took place about 11 weeks before the Battle of the Little Bighorn.