Impeachment Inquiry: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to H. Res 128, Impeaching Alcee L. Hastings, Judge of the United States District Court ... May 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, June 1, 9, July 6 and 7, 1988 |
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Page 424 - There is no support in the Constitution or decisions of this Court for the proposition that the cumbersomeness and delays often encountered in complying with explicit Constitutional standards may be avoided, either by the Congress or by the President...
Page 406 - No person shall be subject, except in cases of impeachment, to more than one punishment or one trial for the same offence; nor shall be compelled to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor be obliged to relinquish his property, where it may be necessary for public use, without a just compensation.
Page 314 - Mintzer, a former chief of the criminal division in the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York...
Page 146 - ... would deprive those plaintiffs holding pending oil and gas lease applications in the designated areas of their Fifth Amendment right to due process. Simultaneously with the filing of the complaint, MSLF filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction to prevent Secretary Watt from taking any action, including the publication in the Federal Register of the public land order withdrawing the three wilderness areas, prior to a full hearing and a decision on the merits...
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Page 36 - The Judicial Councils Reform and Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980 (Pub.
Page 349 - Do you solemnly swear before the everliving God that the testimony you are about to give in this cause shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?" "No, I don't. I can tell you what I saw and what I heard and I'll swear to that by the everliving God but the more I study about it the more sure I am that nobody but the everliving God knows the whole truth and if you summoned Christ as a witness in this case what He would tell you would burn your insides with the pity and the mystery...
Page 424 - The choices we discern as having been made in the Constitutional Convention impose burdens on governmental processes that often seem clumsy, inefficient, even unworkable, but those hard choices were consciously made by men who had lived under a form of government that permitted arbitrary governmental acts to go unchecked...
Page 410 - This independence of the judges is equally requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals from the effects of those ill humors which the arts of designing men, or the influence of particular conjunctures, sometimes disseminate among the people themselves...