Report of the Trial of James H. Peck: Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Missouri, Before the Senate of the U.S. on an Impeachment Preferred by the House of Representatives Against Him for High Misdemeanors in Office
Report of the Trial of James H. Peck: Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Missouri, Before the Senate of the U.S. on an Impeachment Preferred by the House of Representatives Against Him for High Misdemeanors in Office
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...of the piece signed " A Citizen." True, he could not act on his own convictions in this instance, though it seems he acted upon rumor and general report as to the bad character of these Spanish claims. Mr. Lawless gave him the name of the editor, and proceedings were instituted, which eventuated in the commencement of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...of the piece signed " A Citizen." True, he could not act on his own convictions in this instance, though it seems he acted upon rumor and general report as to the bad character of these Spanish claims. Mr. Lawless gave him the name of the editor, and proceedings were instituted, which eventuated in the commencement of the prosecution of Mr. Lawless, his imprisonment and expulsion from the bar. I have thus, Mr. President, attempted to give you a fair and unvarnished statement of the facts. May I not demand of each honorable member of this court to answer me and say upon his conscience, what offence, what crime has Luke E. Lawless committed against the law of the land? Is this act punishable by attachment, admitting the publication to be false? My learned associate (Jodge Spencer, ) has conclusively shown that the courts of the United States possess no common law jursidiction. Indeed, that is a question not open for argument; it is res adjudicata, 7th Cranch, 32, U. S. vs. Hudson, &c.. If the courts of the United States possess the power to punish contempts by attachment, th-y do not derive it from the commgn law. They must derive the power from one of two sources. The judiciary act of 1789, or from what has been denominated in this debate and elsewhere, that inherent power of self-protection which belongs of right to every political body. The words of the judiciary act are, that the said courts shall "have power to punish by fine and imprisonment all contempts of authority in any cause or hear%n before the same." This the Supreme Court, in the case-of Anderson and Dunn, consider as a legislative declaration, that punishment for a contempt shall not extend beyond its known and acknowledged limits of fine and imprisonment. The act i...
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