Word: archbald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other convictions were of Halsted L. Fitter and Robert W. Archbald. Both set important precedents, but it was the 1912 impeachment of California Federal Judge Archbald that established a significant principle in the question of whether an impeachable offense must involve a criminal act. Archbald faced charges of accepting money and favors-but his misbehavior was considered unethical rather than criminal. His lawyer, Alexander Simpson, argued that criminality must be involved. Treason, bribery and high crimes are by definition criminal, he observed. "Everybody knows that a misdemeanor taken technically is a crime pure and simple," he said...