Abstract

Senator Tydings, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery, recently introduced legislation which would empower a Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure to recommend the removal of a federal judge from office.' His proposal, modeled on the California Commission on Judicial Qualifications,2 would avoid using the impeachment process3 specified in the Constitution and thus revives an old constitutional issue: Is impeachment the exclusive method of disciplining federal judges? Senator Tydings apparently thinks not; Justices Black and Douglas

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