Impeachment refers to the condemnation of a politician for wrongdoing by a legislature, often resulting in their removal from office.

The term is common to many political systems, but the most high profile impeachment in recent years was the US House of Representatives' impeachment of former President Bill Clinton on charges of lying to a grand jury and obstructing justice in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The Senate acquitted him on both counts. He kept his office because his opponents failed to muster the two-thirds senate vote necessary to remove him.