Trial of Samuel Chase

This is John Daly in the radio newsroom of the United States Senate. It is 2 p.m. here in Washington this first of March, 1805, and in 15 minutes, Samuel Chase, the Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, may be removed from the bench, convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors.

In 15 minutes, the question of the hour will be decided, whether impeachment proceedings can be used for partisan political purposes and whether the United States Supreme Court can remain independent of politics. At 2.15, precisely Vice President Allen Burr will mount the rock room, reconvene the Senate as a court of impeachment, and each Senator in turn will cast his...

My first verdict... 1805 Washington DC You... Samuel Chase, associate justice of the Supreme Court, is impeached. The independence of our highest judicial tribunal is its state. CBS takes you back 144 years to the little-known but important trial that determined the role played today in our nation's life by the United States Supreme Court.

All things are as they were then, except for one thing. When CBS is there, you are there. You are there. Reduced and directed by Robert Louis Chaeon is based on authentic historical facts and quotations.

And now the radio newsroom of the United States Senate and John DeBade. It has been debated ever since the Constitution was created and ratified by the state 16 years ago. The question is to exactly what relationship the Supreme Court has to the Congress and the presidency.

The article to be voted is the eighth and the last article in the charges brought for the House of Representatives against Justice Chase. If the Jeffersonian Republicans, now in control of the Congress, fail to convict Justice Chase on this final count, the trial will be over and the Supreme Court will have weathered this