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...
Some Impeachment Conundrums
If nothing else, the impeachment proceedings have encouraged us to think about some interesting hypotheticals.ย Here are a few: 1.ย Can former Presidents be impeached?ย Leading originalist-oriented bloggerย Keith Whittingtonย says yes.ย But I am not so sure.ย The...