On the 1804 Impeachment Trial of Justice Samuel Chase Resulting In an Acquittal

The anti Jefferson court historians have of course tried to portray this as simply a political maneuver by the freshly-minted Republican majority but as Raoul Berger has pointed out in his book, "Impeachment; The Constitutional Problems", not only was Chase the number one ramrod for President Adams's unconstitutional Alien and Sedition Act, he even went as far as to a) push for a man's conviction and harsh sentence before he had even been indicted and b) intervene to prevent the fellow's defense counsel from presenting their full case. And since it was Justice Chase who stuck his nose into the 1800 Presidential campaign trying to get his fellow fascist reelected, if anybody was acting "political" it was the judge.