Nixon v. United States
United States Supreme Court
506 U.S. 224 (1993)
Relevant factsFree
Former federal judge Walter Nixon (plaintiff), convicted of perjury and imprisoned, was impeached by the House and tried by a special Senate committee that gathered evidence and reported findings to the full Senate, which voted to remove him. Nixon sued, arguing the Constitution's requirement that impeached officials be "tried by the Senate" as a whole was violated by delegating evidence-gathering to a committee, and sought reinstatement of his judicial salary and privileges.
IssueFree
Whether the scope of the Senate's constitutional authority to conduct impeachment proceedings is a non-justiciable political question incapable of resolution by the courts.
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