The House of Representatives brought articles of impeachment against Federalist Justice Chase in 1804, but he was acquitted in his Senate trial.
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Impeachment was the action voted by the House of Representatives against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. However, the Senate didn't uphold the impeachment.
The US House of Representatives filed Articles of Impeachment against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase in 1804. They accused him of pronouncing an overly harsh sentence against a member of the Republican party for political reasons (Chase was a member of the Federalist Party), and believed he allowed politics to color his judgment. Justice Chase was acquitted of all charges at his Senate trial in 1805.
President George Washington appointed Samuel Chase to the US Supreme Court in 1796. Justice Chase has the distinction of being the only Supreme Court justice impeached by the House of Representatives (1804). He was acquitted at his Senate trial in 1805, and remained on the Court until his death in 1811.
Samuel Chase was the only supreme court justice to be impeached.
Justice Samuel Chase served on the US Supreme Court from 1796 until his death in 1811. Chase is the only Supreme Court justice to have been impeached by the House of Representatives (1804). He was acquitted at his Senate trial in 1805 and remained on the Court another six years. For more information, see Related Questions, below.
Yes, US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is a white male.
Samuel Alito is an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court.
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Samuel Chase
No, Justice Samuel Chase, who served on the US Supreme Court from 1796 - 1811, and Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who presided over the Court from 1864 - 1873, were unrelated. Chief Justice Chase's paternal grandfather was named Samuel, but he died in 1800 at the age of 93. Samuel Chase, the justice, died in 1811.
Samuel Chase was never Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Justice Chase is best known as the first and only US Supreme Court justice in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives (1804). He was acquitted during his Senate trial in 1805 and remained on the Court until his death in 1811.Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, ironically, presided over the first Senate Presidential impeachment trial when Andrew Johnson was brought up on charges of violating the Tenure of Office Act in 1868.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
Samuel Alito is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is head of the Judicial branch of government.