With Trump impeached by the House, a new president assuming office and a Senate trial still to come, the name of Knoxville's William Blount has come back into the spotlight. He has the ...

That senator was William Blount, who was also once the governor of the Southwest Territory which would become Tennessee. “It definitely sets that precedent that nobody is above the law.

How do you solve a problem like Senator William Blount? The Senate still doesn’t know! The case of Blount, who was impeached on this day in 1797, set a number of historic precedents. It also ...