Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judicially stretching his indignation over the whole subject of legislative investigations, Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out that investigating committees act as both prosecutor and judge; put men on trial with no advance knowledge of the charges against them, no right to be represented by counsel, to call their own wit nesses or to cross-examine their accusers; operate with no procedure, no rules of evidence, no court of appeal, no jury ex cept the newspaper-reading public. "What should be proposed," boomed he, "is that Legislatures cease to regard themselves above the law, above the rules of equity and justice...
After four and a half hours' debate, the House exercised its highest constitutional function by impeaching Judge Ritter by a vote of 181-to-146, sending his case across the Capitol for trial by the Senate sometime next month...
...twelve others: eight Federal judges, one Senator (William Blount of Tennessee, 1797), one Secretary of War (William W. Balknap, 1876), one Justice of the Supreme Court (Samuel Chase, 1804), one President (Andrew Johnson, 1868). Three judges were convicted and removed from office. One resigned before trial. One was not prosecuted. The Senator's case was dismissed "for want of jurisdiction." All the others were acquitted...
...injunction ordering him to cease tampering with the wires, resisted repeated attempts to serve him with a warrant for contempt of court. But on the last of those attempts, last autumn, a party of deputy sheriffs had killed his wife Sophie. Now four of the deputies were on trial for manslaughter...
...face of the masters' determination to give the cross-section plan a long trial period, University Hall must make the plan a reality. Under present conditions a general exodus of certain groups occurs at the end of sophomore year and deprives the houses of their truly representative character. The simplest way to keep these men in the houses would be ultimately to discard cross-sections altogether. But the present generation in college may still enjoy the benefits of genuine cross-sections if the houses can be made attractive enough to draw in the men that now prefer to live outside...