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Porteous impeachment highlights need for careful nominations of federal judges

By Edward SanFilippo

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David O. Stewart [Constitutional Lawyer, Author]: "I spent way too much time following the Thomas Porteous impeachment trial, having defended an impeachment trial in 1989 (Judge Walter Nixon) and having written a book about another (Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy). There were some novel issues in the Porteous trial. It is the first time a judge was removed for conduct which occurred before he took the federal bench (Articles of Impeachment [PDF], Article 2). There may be pre-federal conduct that would warrant impeachment and removal, but there was no need to pursue that theory in this case. This also is the first

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