{"id":159797,"date":"2026-08-07T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/07\/the-trial-that-made-the-supreme-court-untouchable\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:22:09","slug":"the-trial-that-made-the-supreme-court-untouchable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/07\/the-trial-that-made-the-supreme-court-untouchable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trial That Made The Supreme Court Untouchable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is the only Supreme Court justice who has ever been impeached by the House? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: A signer of the Declaration of Independence appointed by George Washington, he was hauled before the Senate on eight articles for conduct his political enemies called nakedly partisan. He was acquitted \u2014 an outcome long credited with establishing that a justice can\u2019t be removed simply for rulings the ruling party dislikes. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/the-trial-that-made-the-supreme-court-untouchable\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Trial That Made The Supreme Court Untouchable<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is the only Supreme Court justice who has ever been impeached by the House? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: A signer of the Declaration of Independence appointed by George Washington, he was hauled before the Senate on eight articles for conduct his political enemies called nakedly partisan. He was acquitted \u2014 an outcome long credited with establishing that a justice can\u2019t be removed simply for rulings the ruling party dislikes. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/the-trial-that-made-the-supreme-court-untouchable\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Trial That Made The Supreme Court Untouchable<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who is the only Supreme Court justice who has ever been impeached by the House? Hint: A signer of the Declaration of Independence appointed by George Washington, he was hauled before the Senate on eight articles for conduct his political enemies called nakedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}