Impeachment: Selected Materials, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - 1854 pages Covers material related to the impeachments of Richard M. Nixon, Harry E. Clairborne, Alcee L. Hastings, and Walter L. Nixon, Jr. |
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... judicial office and thus debarred from exercising judicial power . Removal by joint action of the House and Senate is therefore the only explicit qualification of judicial independence and the only explicit means by which a federal ...
... judicial office and thus debarred from exercising judicial power . Removal by joint action of the House and Senate is therefore the only explicit qualification of judicial independence and the only explicit means by which a federal ...
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... judicial office has two consequences . First , a judge is legally eligible to exercise judicial power , because the judicial power of the United States is vested in courts made up of judges . Second , a judge is entitled to receive ...
... judicial office has two consequences . First , a judge is legally eligible to exercise judicial power , because the judicial power of the United States is vested in courts made up of judges . Second , a judge is entitled to receive ...
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... Judicial immunity from state prosecution would be undesirable . It would leave federal judges free of most of the criminal laws that apply to all citizens ... Judicial Councils Reform and Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980 14.
... Judicial immunity from state prosecution would be undesirable . It would leave federal judges free of most of the criminal laws that apply to all citizens ... Judicial Councils Reform and Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980 14.
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... judicial activity while under indictment and in all events will refrain from exercising judicial authority while incarcerated . Even a judge who believes himself or herself to be innocent and expects to be acquitted should recognize the ...
... judicial activity while under indictment and in all events will refrain from exercising judicial authority while incarcerated . Even a judge who believes himself or herself to be innocent and expects to be acquitted should recognize the ...
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... judicial power solely to the courts . That grant , interpreted in light of its purpose of creating an independent judiciary , requires that no organ of government other than the courts decide cases . Reassignment of cases because a ...
... judicial power solely to the courts . That grant , interpreted in light of its purpose of creating an independent judiciary , requires that no organ of government other than the courts decide cases . Reassignment of cases because a ...
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Page 231 - Prominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; or the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion; or the impossibility of a court's undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate...
Page 536 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Page 838 - First, the private interest that will be affected by the official action; second, the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such interest through the procedures used, and the probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards; and finally, the Government's interest, including the function involved and the fiscal and administrative burdens that the additional or substitute procedural requirement would entail.
Page 231 - The province of the court is, solely, to decide on the rights of individuals, not to inquire how the executive, or executive officers, perform duties in which they have a discretion. Questions in their nature political, or which are, by the constitution and laws, submitted to the executive, can never be made in this court.
Page 473 - Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation...
Page 871 - Congress ; but they shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of the duties vested in the Commission.
Page 313 - Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Page 201 - Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retribution....
Page 867 - When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers ; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Page 240 - In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed...