One of the great achievements of Benjamin Robbins Curtis defending A. Johnson at his impeachment trial was convincing the Senate that impeachment was a judicial process. That specter has loomed over every impeachment since.
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Curtis was quite the fascinating man himself. The only Whig ever appointed to the Supreme Court, the first Justice with a law degree, one of the two Dred Scott dissenters, and the only Justice to resign his seat over a matter of principle (see previous point).
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