Gabriel Thomas Porteous Jr. was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He served for sixteen years before being impeached and removed from office in December 2010. He died on November 14,2021,aged 74.
Halsted Lockwood Ritter was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He was the thirteenth individual to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives and the fourth individual to be convicted and removed from office in an impeachment trial before the United States Senate.
Impeachment in the United States is the process by which a legislature may bring charges against an officeholder for misconduct alleged to have been committed with a penalty of removal. Impeachment may also occur at the state level if the state or commonwealth has provisions for it under its constitution. Impeachment might also occur with tribal governments as well as at the local level of government.
Robert Wodrow Archbald,known as R. W. Archbald,was a United States circuit judge of the United States Commerce Court,the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Circuit Courts for the Third Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He was the ninth federal official on whom Articles of Impeachment were served,and only the third to be convicted and removed from office.
Abuse of power or abuse of authority,in the form of "malfeasance in office" or "official abuse of power",is the commission of an unlawful act,done in an official capacity,which affects the performance of official duties. Malfeasance in office is often a just cause for removal of an elected official by statute or recall election. Officials who abuse their power are often corrupt.
Samuel B. Kent is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas,whose term ended in resignation in 2009 following charges of sexual abuse.
Earl Cory Michener was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
John Newton Tillman was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas. In the Arkansas State Senate he proposed the Separate Coach Law of 1891,a Jim Crow law to segregate African American passengers. The bill became law.
William Dayton Boies was a lawyer,trial-court judge and five-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 11th congressional district in northwestern Iowa.
James Earl Major was an American lawyer,jurist,and politician. He served as a United States representative from Illinois,a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
John Allen Sterling was a U.S. Representative from Illinois,and brother of Thomas Sterling.
Charles Ellis Moore was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1919 to 1933.
Ira Greenlief Hersey was a politician from Hodgdon,Maine,who served in the Maine House of Representatives,the Maine State Senate,and most notably in the United States Congress as a Representative for the U.S. State of Maine.
Cornelius Holgate Hanford was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Washington and the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington,and was the only Judge to serve in the District of Washington and the first to serve in the Western District of Washington. Hanford resigned in the face of an impeachment investigation by the United States House of Representatives. He was the younger brother of the newspaper editor Thaddeus Hanford.
Mark William Delahay was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. He resigned after being impeached by the United States House of Representatives due to allegations of alcoholism.
On June 19,2008,the Judicial Conference of the United States delivered to the United States House of Representatives notification certifying "its determination that consideration of impeachment of United States District Judge Thomas Porteous may be warranted." Later that year,the 110th Congress authorized its Judiciary Committee to establish a task Force to run an impeachment inquiry. The task force's authority was renewed by the 111th Congress on January 13,2009. In May of that year,its authority was expanded to include an investigation of Samuel Kent,a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas,leading to his impeachment by the House of Representatives on June 19,2009.
Impeachment in the United States is the process by which the House of Representatives brings charges against a civil federal officer,the vice president,or the president for misconduct alleged to have been committed. The United States House of Representatives can impeach a party with a simple majority of the House members present or such other criteria as the House adopts in accordance with Article One,Section 2,Clause 5 of the United States Constitution. Most state legislatures can impeach state officials,including the governor,in accordance with their respective state constitution.
