How Andrew Cuomo’s impeachment in New York will work

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August 5, 2021 at 12:48 p.m. EDT
The Post’s Philip Bump analyzes what might happen to New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) following an investigation of sexual harassment allegations. (Video: JM Rieger/The Washington Post, Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

Here’s how bad the sexual harassment and coverup allegations against New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) are: It’s looking like he will be the first governor of New York to be impeached in more than a century, and it will happen with members of his own party leading it.

In the days after the attorney general of New York released her damning report of Cuomo, accusing him of being a serial sexual harasser and his office of trying to undermine the investigation, key New York Democrats said they were all in on starting impeachment proceedings.

Cuomo hasn’t just lost the support of President Biden and the top leaders in Congress, but also the top Democrats in New York’s legislature and the head of the state’s Democratic Party.

In other words, impeachment is happening, and it’s tough to see how Cuomo survives this.

The impeachment process in New York is both familiar to people who have followed impeachment proceedings of presidents, and different. Here’s what to expect.