Impeachment
What are High Crimes and Misdemeanors?
Judge Napolitano said in an interview on Newsmax TV back in February of this year that only crimes merit judicial impeachment. He said that โthat federal judges should not be impeached based on political disagreements but only for committing high crimes or...
Today in History: Preparations Begin for Impeachment Trial of Justice Samuel Chase
Today in 1804, the Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate appointed a committee to plan the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Chase had been impeached by the House of Representatives...
Skeptical on Impeachment
Iโll put the conclusion first: I think supporters of the present impeachment have largely stated the law correctly, but Iโm skeptical of their application of the law to the facts. As indicated in aย prior post, I mostly agree with the Majority Counselโsย scholarly and...
The Judiciary Committeeโs ex post facto approach to impeachment violates the Constitution
The House Judiciary Committee has issued aย reportย claiming, essentially, that Congress is not bound by any standards of what is impeachable. Citing Justice Joseph Story, who wrote a 19th century commentary on the Constitution, the report claims that it is impossible...