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Finally, by a vote of 8-2, the states concluded that the President would be impeachable. The ultimate constitutional provision: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." Impeachment was limited to removal from office and disqualification from holding future office; any other punishment would require criminal proceedings in the courts. The Vice President and civil officers had been added as an afterthought. Throughout the impeachment debate, the founders' wary eyes were almost exclusively...
...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. "If it is taken in the popular sense, you will not find one in a thousand but will say that every one of those words...
Burr dealt with the indictment by leaving town. There followed his premature adventures in empire building and manifest destiny in the Southwest. These eventually led to a charge of treason brought by President Jefferson, a trial that saw Jefferson invoke Executive privilege to withhold documents. The far-reaching effect of Burr's eventual acquittal was to help define what constitutes a treasonable...
...killing continued. José ("Comandante Pepe") Gregorio Liendo Vera, a popular revolutionary who organized peasants in the south of Chile to seize farms, was executed by a military firing squad. Communist Party Leader Luis Corvalán Lepe is on trial on a charge of high treason, which carries the death penalty. All told, 476 people have died-some say as many as 5,000-including one American...
...They didn't say that an impeachment must precede an indictment. They provided only that an impeachment would not foreclose an indictment. Second, the Vice President is seeking a privilege, an implied privilege that was denied to the Congress by the Constitution. Congressmen "shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest" and only during "attendance at the session." That means that they could be arrested for treason and felony - bribery, for example - even during a session. The narrow privilege thus granted to Congress was consciously withheld from the President. Finally...