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This is a way for the legislative branch to check and balance the executive and judicial branches and police itself as well. As of December 2019, there have been 66 federal judges or Supreme Court Justices investigated for impeachment. [1]
The impeachment of Samuel Chase, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, was politically motivated. [1] A high-profile affair at the time, [2] the impeachment pitted the two major United States political parties of the era against each other amid a battle between the parties over, among other things, what the role of Federal courts should look like. [3]
In 1804, Chase was impeached by the House of Representatives on grounds of letting his partisan leanings affect his court decisions, but was acquitted the following year by the Senate and remained in office. He is the only United States Supreme Court Justice to have ever been impeached.
Only one Supreme Court Justice has ever been impeached. Here’s how the process works and what happened the only time it succeeded. How Impeaching a Supreme Court Justice Works
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The Supreme Court reached similar conclusions in a number of other cases. In Barenblatt v. United States, [32] the Court permitted Congress to punish contempt, when a person refused to answer questions while testifying under subpoena by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The Court explained that although "Congress may not ...
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts in a year-end report issued on December 31 defending the judiciary's independence described a threat by an unnamed elected official to impeach a judge over her ...
As it has since 1869, the court consists of nine justices – the chief justice of the United States and eight associate justices – who meet at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. Justices have lifetime tenure, meaning they remain on the court until they die, retire, resign, or are impeached and removed from office. [3]