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...House must play the role of grand jury, deciding whether the evidence of presidential abuse warrants sending articles of impeachment to the Senate. The House duty, as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson phrases it, is to conduct "the grand inquest of the nation." Since October, the House Judiciary Committee has been at work assembling evidence and defining the modern meaning of high crimes and misdemeanors; it hopes to finish its work by April or May. If the 38-member committee then votes to recommend impeachment, the House as a whole cannot escape voting yea or nay on the President...
...coroner gave the cause of death as an edema (swelling) of the brain, a finding that is being investigated further in an inquest...
...House committee approves, then the full House, calling itself "the grand inquest of the nation," decides by a simple majority whether to impeach, the equivalent of an indictment. If it does, the Senate becomes "the high court of impeachment," and conducts the trial; it can convict by a two-thirds majority of those present. Andrew Johnson, the lone President to be impeached, escaped conviction by one vote (35-19) after he attempted to fire his popular Secretary of War in defiance of a new law that forbade...
...Watergate, the first high officials stood formally accused. So far the criminal charges against them did not directly bear on Watergate, but they obviously reflected the amorality and the motives behind the wiretap and the many connecting offenses. Obviously also, the indictments were only the beginning of a long inquest that would produce many more charges...
...When the Constitution was ratified, Congress was called the 'Grand Inquest of the Nation,'" Berger said. He explained that the British Parliament's right of inquiry into the executive branch was adopted by the founders of the U.S. Constitution, and was never questioned until recently...