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** NOVEMBER 30, 2020
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On November 30, 1804—216 years ago today—the U.S. Senate ([link removed]) formally began preparations for an impeachment ([link removed]) trial of Supreme Court ([link removed]) Justice Samuel Chase ([link removed]) .[1] ([link removed])
Partisan tensions appeared to be heavily involved. Chase had been appointed by George Washington ([link removed]) , had served on the Court since 1796, and was a “staunch Federalist.” However, by 1804, the political environment had shifted dramatically. The Federalists held just 9 of 34 seats in the Senate. Thomas Jefferson ([link removed]) was in the White House, and his party—Jeffersonian Republicans—had supermajority control of the Senate.[1] ([link removed])
“Highlighting the political nature of this case, the final article of impeachment accused the justice of continually promoting his political agenda on the bench, thereby ‘tending to prostitute the high judicial character with which he was invested, to the low purpose of an electioneering partizan.’”[1] ([link removed])
The trial began early in 1805, and Chase was acquitted on March 1, with “at least six Jeffersonian Republicans joining the nine Federalists who voted not guilty on each article” of impeachment. “The Senate thereby effectively insulated the judiciary from further congressional attacks based on disapproval of judges’ opinions.”[1] ([link removed])
Chase—who had signed the Declaration of Independence ([link removed]) earlier in his career—continued serving on the Supreme Court until he died in 1811.[2] ([link removed])
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