f the cumbersomeness of the
impeachment process and the amount of time it is apt to consume, it has
been suggested that a special court could, and should, be created to try
cases of alleged misbehavior in office of inferior judges of the United
States, this type of officer having furnished the great majority of
cases of impeachment under the Constitution. _See_ Memorandum on Removal
Power of Congress with Respect to the Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary
Committee, 80th Cong., 1st sess.; _also_ Burke Shartel, Federal
Judges--Appointment, Supervision, and Removal--Some Possibilities under
the Constitution, 28 Mich. L. Rev., 870-907 (May 1930). Is impeachment
the only way in which Congress, or either house thereof, is
constitutionally entitled to call the President to account for his
conduct in office? _Cf._ George Wharton Pepper, Family Quarrels, The
President, the Senate, and the House (New York, 1931), 138 ff.; and
Corwin, The President, Office and Powers (3d ed.), 411-413.

ARTICLE III

THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

Section 1. The judicial power, courts, judges: Page
Characteristics and attributes of judicial power 511
"Judicial power" 511
"Shall be vested" 512
Finality of judgment 512
Taney doctrine 513
Award of execution 514
Ancillary powers 515
Contempt power; the act of 1789 515
An inherent power 515
Contempt power exalted 516
Recession of the doctrine 517
Bridges _v._ California 517
Summary punishment of contempt; misbehavior of counsel 517
Punishment of counsel; The Sacher Case 519
Contempt by disobedience of orders 520
Criminal versus civil contempts 521
Judicial power aids administrative power 521
Power to issue writs; the act of 1789 522
Common law powers of the District of Columbia Courts 522
Habeas corpus