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Can a State Compel Congress to Impeach?
A resolution sent from a state does not compel the US House to act. Section 603 of Jefferson manual simply list ways that impeachment has been set in motion in the past. It mentions the precedent of the impeachment of Federal Judge Charles Swayne in 1903 in which charges from the Florida state legislature resulted in impeachment. Section 603 should be thought of as a list of things that worked in the past and that we can try again. It is not a law that compels Congress to act.
Any individual or group, city or state can petition for impeachment. Congress is free to ignore those petitions. But a memorial from a state would carry a lot of weight and be difficult to ignore. It may also give the state's representative the courage to introduce an impeachment resolution, which they all have the power to do.
The only things we can reasonable expect is that a properly signed petition will get entered in the Congressional Record and sent to the appropriate Committee. That is the standard procedure in the House. But some petitions seems to been mislaid in the Speaker's office.
