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" No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest. are the creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. "
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Report of the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee: Hearings Before ..., Part 3

United States. Congress. Senate. Impeachment Trial Committee - Judges - 1986 - 1076 pages
...Supreme Court stated in United States v. Lee, 106 US 1%, 220, 1 S-Ct 240, 260, 27 L.Ed. 171 (1882): No man in this country is so high that he is above...officer of the law may set that law at defiance with determine whether or not the person should be indicted and tried. I believe that we want to avoid in...
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Judicial Impeachment: None Called for Justice

Mary L. Volcansek - Law - 1993 - 214 pages
...prosecution was rejected because it ran counter to "another treasured value of our constitutional system: no man in this country is so high that he is above the law."36 While Hastings fought his case through appeals and pretrial motions, Borders went to trial...
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Impeachment: Selected Materials, Part 1

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - History - 1998 - 1898 pages
...the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it ; no officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity." In the case of subpoenas issued by this Committee in the course of it£ impeachment investigation,...
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Impeachment: Selected Materials, Part 1

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - History - 1998 - 1892 pages
...the citizen," wrote Justice Louis Brandeis." The Supreme Court has said : Ko man in this country la so high that he is above the law. No officer of the taw may set that law at defiance with Impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest...
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Impeachment Or Indictment: Is a Sitting President Subject to the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 248 pages
...of our system. This point was made most eloquently in United States v. Lee, 106 US 196, 220 (1882): "No man in this country is so high that he is above...law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and are bound...
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Impeachment Inquiry: William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - History - 1999 - 756 pages
...Let*** a civil suit against appointed military officers acting under a presidential directive, stated: [N]o officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of government, from the highest to the lowest ... are bound to obey it. It Is the only supreme power in...
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Impeachment Or Indictment: Is a Sitting President Subject to the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 256 pages
...decision facing this office and the Grand Jury, than that there shall be equal justice for all and that "(n)o man in this country is so high that he is above the law." United States v. Lee, 106 US j.96, 220 (1882)^/For us or the grand jury to shirk from an appropriate...
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Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court

John E. Semonche - History - 2000 - 532 pages
...prohibited." Insisting that the Court's priestly authority is to enforce the commands of the sacred writ, he said: "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set the law at defiance, with impunity. All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest,...
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Public Administration and Law

Julia Beckett, Heidi O. Koenig - Business & Economics - 2005 - 284 pages
...the validity of his or her actions. "No man in this country," the Supreme Court has admonished us, "is so high that he is above the law. No officer of...law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All of the officers of government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound...
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Litigation with the Federal Government

Gregory C. Sisk - Law - 2006 - 694 pages
...States, every person, even an officer near to the seat of power, remains subject to the rule of law: No man in this country is so high that he is above...law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All of the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are...
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