 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1963 - 598 lapas
...present in a criminal case. An accused Member is judged by no specifically articulated standards 13 and is at the mercy of an almost unbridled discretion...Constitution. Moreover, it would be somewhat naive to assume that the triers would be wholly objective and free from considerations of party and politics... | |
 | 1980 - 532 lapas
...present in a criminal case. An accused Member is judged by no specifically articulated standards 13 and is at the mercy of an almost unbridled discretion...Constitution. Moreover, it would be somewhat naive to assume that the triers would be wholly objective and free from considerations of party and politics... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Standards of Official Conduct - 1988 - 1352 lapas
...ill-equipped to investigate, try, and punish its Members. ..." Id. Specifically, the Court stated that: It]he process of disciplining a Member in the Congress is...without the safeguards provided by the Constitution. The Bouse has responded to the challenge of the Constitution and that of the Supreme Court by forging... | |
 | Christopher A. Anzalone - 2002 - 832 lapas
...part of the legislative function, the independence of individual Members might actually be impaired. The process of disciplining a Member in the Congress...Constitution. Moreover, it would be somewhat naive to assume that the triers would be wholly objective and free from considerations of party and politics... | |
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Member is judged by no specifically articulated standards, and is at the mercy of an almost unbridled discretion of the charging body that functions at once as accuser, prosecutor, judge, and jury from whose decision there is no established right of review.... 