Word: jenner
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...jurisdiction over what evidence the committee can or cannot acquire-or for that matter, over any part of the constitutionally sanctioned impeachment process of the House. Doar said that impeachment was "an overriding constitutional responsibility" and that the House was entitled to relevant information from any source. Jenner said that in this situation Sirica was no different from any other U.S. citizen. The judge had evidence relative to impeachment and must surrender it. The source of the material did not matter...
...House Judiciary Committee is about to define what it considers to be "impeachable offenses." Almost certainly, its definitions will be broad and will not require evidence of criminal activity by Nixon. As the first step, the committee's Chief Counsel John M. Doar and Minority Counsel Albert Jenner this week will submit a report outlining just what kinds of acts the committee's staff of legal specialists deem to be impeachable. The report is expected to say that betrayals of public trust and gross neglect of official duties fall into the category of the "high crimes and misdemeanors...
...worry about the low es tate of politics these days. Of course, low politics is undeniably present, with some adamantly for or against impeach ment for partisan reasons. But the majority of Representatives are now waiting for the framing of the charges by Attorneys John Doar and Albert Jenner, majority and minority counsel respectively, to the Judiciary Committee. Just as there are high crimes and misdemeanors, there is a high politics...
...Democrats and 17 Republicans on the committee voted unanimously to seek full subpoena powers from the House to aid its impeachment inquiry-a request certain to be quickly approved. Leading Republicans on the committee have expressed agreement with both Chief Counsel John Doar and Minority Counsel Albert Jenner that such subpoenas, under the Constitution's grant of impeachment authority to the House, cannot be legally refused by the President. He can even be ordered to appear before the committee. His failure to cooperate could, in itself, constitute an impeachable offense...
Appointments to top staff positions have been made. As minority counsel the Republicans chose Albert Jenner, 66, a prominent G.O.P. attorney in Chicago who served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission investigation of John Kennedy's assassination. He may provide scant partisan comfort to Nixon. In a TV interview, he said that "certainly within some areas the President should be responsible for the actions of aides," even if he did not know what the aide was doing...