{"id":167042,"date":"2026-11-09T16:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T00:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/09\/pete-hegseth-prepares-to-join-elite-club-of-the-impeached\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T00:03:56","slug":"pete-hegseth-prepares-to-join-elite-club-of-the-impeached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/09\/pete-hegseth-prepares-to-join-elite-club-of-the-impeached\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth Prepares To Join Elite Club (Of The Impeached)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With Rep. Thomas Massie expected to force a vote to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, how many times has a cabinet secretary been impeached by the House of Representatives?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: We aren\u2019t asking about the outcome in the Senate\u2026 for example, if the Senate dismissed the articles of impeachment as unconstitutional without hearing the case, that would still count (so that should tell you that the answer is at least once). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/pete-hegseth-prepares-to-join-elite-club-of-the-impeached\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Hegseth Prepares To Join Elite Club (Of The Impeached)<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With Rep. Thomas Massie expected to force a vote to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, how many times has a cabinet secretary been impeached by the House of Representatives?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: We aren\u2019t asking about the outcome in the Senate\u2026 for example, if the Senate dismissed the articles of impeachment as unconstitutional without hearing the case, that would still count (so that should tell you that the answer is at least once). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/pete-hegseth-prepares-to-join-elite-club-of-the-impeached\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Hegseth Prepares To Join Elite Club (Of The Impeached)<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Rep. Thomas Massie expected to force a vote to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, how many times has a cabinet secretary been impeached by the House of Representatives? Hint: We aren\u2019t asking about the outcome in the Senate\u2026 for example, if the Senate dismissed the articles of impeachment as unconstitutional without hearing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}