Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Impeachment is a bungling way to remove judges.
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd President of the United States (Democratic Republican, VA), Quoted on ABC Nightline, August 3, 1988
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Presidential dissatisfaction with the judiciary is an old and common problem.
The first Federal judge who was impeached and convicted was John Pickering of New Hampshire. Jefferson was not pleased with the process that the Congress had to go through:
The reason that this quotation is particularly important is that Taft, in addition to being a President, was also the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the only Supreme Court Justice to become President.
The concern of extreme wings of various parties with judicial activism is not limited to the United States.
His concept of “misbehaving” is not corruption or waste and inefficiency. He is referring to legal opinions which Bork believes are at variance with his and other ultra conservatives view of what the law ought to be. They see the courts as inappropriately activist especially when their opinions are at variance with the traditional cultural norms and values of the society, except of course when it agrees with one of the conservative doctrines.
The government of Pakistan regarded this as seditious. The Government can fire judges at will and the military has the right to convene its own courts and try Pakistani civilians for certain alleged crimes by removing their cases from the civilian courts. Even when a Pakistani judge is not intimidated by the government or the military, the Islamic extremist fanatics often assassinate any public official who any one of thousands of fanatics feels is anti-Islamic.
He was summarizing impeachment under English law. The impeachment concept was borrowed by the Founding Fathers in the U. S. Constitution. See {584247}.
The public must be assured that prosecutorial decisions are made on legal and not political grounds.
In 2007 Inglesias was fired by the same George W. Bush Administration because they were unhappy that he was not prosecuting cases for which he claimed that there was no legal justification for but had potential political advantage for the administration.
This is the earliest surviving attempt of the Romans to formulate a legal code.
There are many who believe that this principle should operate today in America. We do not allow civil recovery from an errant or unscrupulous judge as there could be a very inhibiting factor on the willingness to serve. However the Visigoths, weighted down with religious and secular superstition still placed fairness as one of the most important elements of their legal system. This is the most formalized and sophisticated compendium of laws of the so-called “barbaric peoples” of Europe. The compilation was in many ways a documentation of the traditional laws of the Visigoths that had evolved over hundreds of years.
This is the most formalized and sophisticated compendium of laws of the so-called “barbaric peoples” of Europe. The compilation was in many ways a documentation of the traditional laws of the Visigoths that had evolved over hundreds of years.
Others argue that the prosecutors are the weakest link in the system. See {631696}.
This shameful quotation was shocking to most readers. It is subject to two interpretations: One that judges who did not rule on Constitutional issues the way conservative extremists wanted would come to physical harm. The other, that conservatives should pressure judges by withholding appropriations for the courts, impeachments and recall elections where they exist, as well as funding potential opponents for those jurisdictions where judges are elected. Both meanings were disgraceful in the view of most Americans. Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.
