Overcoming Potential Obstacles to Holding Federal Judges Accountable: One Rotten Judicial Apple at a Time

INTRODUCTION

            The following language from the House Report accompanying the Judge Walter L. Nixon, Jr., and Samuel B. Kent Articles of Impeachment aptly sets out the core principles underlying and justifying Impeachment:

            The [House’s] role is not to punish, but simply to determine whether articles of impeachment should be brought. U…