"Ogden Johnson III" wrote in message

A U.S. Federal judge holds a lifetime commission and can only be removed
by
impeachment. Very few have suffered this fate.

Impeachment [i.e., House of Representatives charging a "crime"]
*and* conviction by the Senate removing the judge. Impeachment
doesn't result in removal. Only conviction of the offenses for
which the official was impeached.

The verb "to impeach" means to accuse, charge a liability on, or to sue. In
the context in which it was in the Consititution of the U.S. (and in that of
most states) it means a proceeding charging a public official with mis, mal,
or non-feasance before a quasi-political court.

You are "impeached" when a bill of charges is brought before the
approprirate body. If you are convicted by the finders of fact there seems
to be no other specific term of art (at least I can't find oneg). So
"impeachment" may have a double, if sloppy, meaning.

One of the few judges impeached by the House and convicted by the
Senate got his revenge. Election to the House of Representatives
that impeached him. He's still serving, having been reelected
regularly.

Ah, yes. Proving that impeachment is a political process, not a judicial
conviction.g

Bill Kambic

If, by any act, error, or omission, I have, intentionally or
unintentionally, displayed any breedist, disciplinist, sexist, racist,
culturalist, nationalist, regionalist, localist, ageist, lookist, ableist,
sizeist, speciesist, intellectualist, socioeconomicist, ethnocentrist,
phallocentrist, heteropatriarchalist, or other violation of the rules of
political correctness, known or unknown, I am not sorry and I encourage you
to get over it.