Conduct of Harry E. Claiborne, U.S. District Judge, District of Nevada: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H. Res. 461 ... June 19, 1986, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 157 pages |
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... Impeachment , Report by the Staff of the Impeachment Inquiry , House Committee on the Judiciary , 93d Cong . , 2d Sess . ( Committee Print , 1974 ) , at 26 ............... ( III ) 96 96 CONDUCT OF HARRY E. CLAIBORNE , UNITED STATES ...
... Impeachment , Report by the Staff of the Impeachment Inquiry , House Committee on the Judiciary , 93d Cong . , 2d Sess . ( Committee Print , 1974 ) , at 26 ............... ( III ) 96 96 CONDUCT OF HARRY E. CLAIBORNE , UNITED STATES ...
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... impeachment process is in a sense unique . This is the first time in our history that a convicted Federal judge has been the subject of an impeachment inquiry . Specifically , we are looking into the fact that the U.S. District Judge ...
... impeachment process is in a sense unique . This is the first time in our history that a convicted Federal judge has been the subject of an impeachment inquiry . Specifically , we are looking into the fact that the U.S. District Judge ...
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... impeachment of Judge Claiborne . House Resolution 461 was referred to this sub- committee , and we must decide whether to process it or not , and if we do process it , how to amend it with specific articles of impeach- ment . The ...
... impeachment of Judge Claiborne . House Resolution 461 was referred to this sub- committee , and we must decide whether to process it or not , and if we do process it , how to amend it with specific articles of impeach- ment . The ...
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... impeached . In 1974 , in my view , our committee demonstrated an ability to conduct such an inquiry in a fair , thorough , and bipartisan manner , and I have every confidence this will be true again . Impeachment is a unique prerogative ...
... impeached . In 1974 , in my view , our committee demonstrated an ability to conduct such an inquiry in a fair , thorough , and bipartisan manner , and I have every confidence this will be true again . Impeachment is a unique prerogative ...
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... impeachment of Judge Claiborne . House Resolution 461 was referred to this sub- committee , and we must decide whether to process it or not , and if we do process it , how to amend it with specific articles of impeach- ment . The ...
... impeachment of Judge Claiborne . House Resolution 461 was referred to this sub- committee , and we must decide whether to process it or not , and if we do process it , how to amend it with specific articles of impeach- ment . The ...
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Page 4 - No evidence or testimony taken in executive session may be released or used in public sessions without the consent of the committee.
Page 131 - Judgment in cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of Honour, Trust, or Profit under the United States : but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment, and Punishment according to Law.
Page 143 - Congress, did attempt to bring into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach the Congress of the United States, and the several branches thereof, to impair and destroy the regard and respect of all the good people of the United States...
Page 68 - Commentary Public confidence in the judiciary is eroded by irresponsible or improper conduct by judges. A judge must avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety. He must expect to be the subject of constant public scrutiny. He must therefore accept restrictions on his conduct that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen and should do so freely and willingly.
Page 143 - ... which said utterances, declarations, threats, and harangues, highly censurable in any, are peculiarly indecent and unbecoming in the Chief Magistrate of the United States, by means whereof said Andrew Johnson has brought the high office of the President of the United States into contempt, ridicule, and disgrace, to the great scandal of all good citizens; whereby said Andrew Johnson.
Page 137 - States, having been guilty of a high misdemeanor, entirely inconsistent with his public trust and duty as a Senator, be, and he hereby is, expelled from the Senate of the United States.
Page 107 - PINCKNEY did not see the necessity of impeachments. He was sure they ought not to issue from the Legislature, who would in that case hold them as a rod over the Executive, and by that means effectually destroy his independence.
Page 143 - United -States, unmindful of the high duties of his office and of his oath of office, with intent unlawfully to control the disbursements of the moneys appropriated for the military service and for the Department of War, on the...
Page 108 - If any person guilty of, or charged with, treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the governor or executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 109 - It is a technical term. It is used in a very old statute of that country whose language is our language, and whose laws form the substratum of our laws. It is scarcely conceivable that the term was not employed by the framers of our constitution in the sense which had been affixed to it by those from whom we borrowed it.