“Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth.” Exodus 18:21(a) (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Due to recent events a question has arisen as to whether impeachment is an appropriate response to a judicial decision. In an op-ed for the Washington Times, AFA Action Senior Counsel Phillip Jauregui explained,
The first federal judge impeached and removed from office was Judge John Pickering in 1804 for ruling a case that defied the law. The articles [of impeachment] charge that Pickering ruled ‘said act of Congress not regarding, but with intent to evade the same’…
The generation that drafted and ratified the impeachment and removal provisions
knew them and understood them best.
