The House of Representatives passes eight articles of impeachment against Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, articles one, three, four, five and six of which:
- Accuse Chase of bias in the trial of John Fries acting “in a manner high arbitrary, oppressive, and unjust”;
- Accuse Chase of “open contempt of the rights of [J]uries, on which, ultimately rest the liberty and safety of the American people”;
- Accuse Chase of bias in the trial of James T. Callender refusing to permit a crucial material witness to testify on behalf of Callender, exhibiting “manifest injustice, partiality, and intemperance”;
- Accuse Chase of conducting himself more as a prosecutor than as a judge;
- Accuse Chase of capricious disregard for the lawful powers and rights of Grand Juries.
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Authority:
Article I, Section 2 [Clause 5]
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References:
Sedition Act, 1 Public Statutes at Large 1079-80 (1798).
The Trial of Judge Chase, (January 2, 1805), 8th Congress, 2nd session, Annals of Congress, volume 2, 85-86, 92.
Frederick Trevor Hill, Decisive Battles of the Law Narrative Studies of Eight Legal Contests Affecting the History of the United States Between the Years 1800 and 1886, (New York and London: William Morrow, 1902), 1, 22.
Paul Johnson, A History of the American People, (New York: HarperPerennial, 1997), 250.
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Impeachment of Samuel Chase – Wikipedia
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