United States DC Circuit

The Constitution's vesting of the impeachment power in Congress does not preclude other methods of disciplining judges, and the principle of judicial independence implicit in Article III does not bar discipline of judges for actions while on the bench.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/07/2000
• Decided 09/21/2001
• Published 09/21/2001

Judges

• Before:  WILLIAMS and TATEL, Circuit Judges, and SILBERMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Broiles and Arnon D. Siegel argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William B. Schultz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellee United States of America.  David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, Mark B. Stern and Scott R. McIntosh, Attorneys, and Wilma A. Lewis, U.S. Attorney at the time the brief was filed, were on the brief. Thomas W. Millet, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, entered an appearance., Robert B. Fiske, Jr. argued the cause for appellees the Committee to Review Circuit Council Conduct and Disability Orders of the Judicial Conference of the United States, et al.   With him on the brief was Lowell Gordon Harriss.