... that impeachment before "treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeandors." To George Mason's suggestion that "maladministration" be a ground for impeachment, both James MADISON and Gouverneur Morris objected that so vague a term would surely produce the result that tenure in office would be at the pleasure of the Senate. Since the adoption of the Constitution, only one president, Andrew JOHNSON (1868 ... , impeachment remains the only means by which a federal judge may be removed. Certain questions concerning the impeachment process have persisted: whether it is judicial or pol...

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