{"id":161909,"date":"2026-08-31T14:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/31\/the-justice-that-beat-an-impeachment-effort-led-by-a-future-president\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:53:12","slug":"the-justice-that-beat-an-impeachment-effort-led-by-a-future-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/31\/the-justice-that-beat-an-impeachment-effort-led-by-a-future-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The Justice That Beat An Impeachment Effort Led By A Future President"},"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>Which Supreme Court justice survived a 1970 campaign to impeach him, led by a House minority leader who would later become president? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: That future president offered a memorably elastic definition of an impeachable offense: \u201cwhatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be.\u201d The impeachment push was widely read as revenge for the Senate\u2019s rejection of two of Nixon\u2019s Supreme Court nominees. When the justice finally retired in 1975, his old antagonist, by then in the Oval Office, got to pick his replacement. <\/strong><br \/><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-justice-that-beat-an-impeachment-effort-led-by-a-future-president\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Justice That Beat An Impeachment Effort Led By A Future President<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/04\/impeach-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: 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>Which Supreme Court justice survived a 1970 campaign to impeach him, led by a House minority leader who would later become president? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: That future president offered a memorably elastic definition of an impeachable offense: \u201cwhatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be.\u201d The impeachment push was widely read as revenge for the Senate\u2019s rejection of two of Nixon\u2019s Supreme Court nominees. When the justice finally retired in 1975, his old antagonist, by then in the Oval Office, got to pick his replacement. <\/strong><br \/><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/the-justice-that-beat-an-impeachment-effort-led-by-a-future-president\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/the-justice-that-beat-an-impeachment-effort-led-by-a-future-president\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which Supreme Court justice survived a 1970 campaign to impeach him, led by a House minority leader who would later become president? Hint: That future president offered a memorably elastic definition of an impeachable offense: \u201cwhatever a majority of the House of Representatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/impeach-600x400-SZy3VM.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161909","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=161909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}