Word: rodino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group in the room kept growing: Albert asked in Peter Rodino and Edward Hutchinson, the Democratic chairman and the ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, which historically handles impeachment proceedings...
Precedents and Practices. After the meeting broke up at about 5:45, Peter Rodino and his staff on the Judiciary Committee set to work, at Albert's direction, to think through the implications of Agnew's request. The men worked late into the night, studying and restudying Agnew's carefully drafted letter and reviewing the House's precedents and practices. To support his request, Agnew had cited an 1827 investigation by a House committee that cleared Vice President John C. Calhoun of charges that he had illegally profited from a Government contract. But there was one key difference between...
...night went on, Rodino and his staffers came to agree that Agnew was really asking to be tried by the House instead of a jury in Baltimore...
...House does not conduct trials," Rodino said later, "and this, in effect, would be a trial of a criminal proceeding." At length the Democrats decided that there was at least a suspicion that Agnew was trying to "obstruct" justice rather than get "a fair trial." If the House looked into the case, Agnew would have all the more reason to call for a halt to the grand jury's actions...