[BuckeyeTexan]

Your response seems to imply that Hastings was not entitled to due process because the USSC ruled that impeachment is a civil proceeding. Is that correct?

As I understand the law, citizens have the right to due process in civil proceedings too, not just criminal proceedings. Is that incorrect?

It would seem that the USSC was ruling that Hastings couldn’t claim double jeopardy because the impeachment was a civil proceeding not that he wasn’t entitled to due process.

[Congressman Billybob]

Everyone is entitled to due process, even a student about to be expelled from school. The point is, due process in a CRIMINAL trial is a lot more restrictive, than due process in a CIVIL proceeding.

That is why Hastings was wrong in the Supreme Court, and Blago is wrong (and wildly self-delusional) now.

John ; Billybob