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the trial in an ordinary judicial fashion and for that

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reason, your Committee on Judicial Provision adopted the

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draft and recommended to the Committee of the Whole that

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the impeachment process be approved in the Constitution

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as we have it now. We felt that there was a necessity

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for the constitutional provision.

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The U. S. Constitution parallels the English

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practices, but I suggest again that we have varied

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slightly from that and, again, we recommend that GP-10

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be adopted by the Committee.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any questions of the

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Committee Chairman?

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Delegate Marion.

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DELEGATE MARION: Delegate Boyer, is it fair

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to interpret this recommendation to the extent that it

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covers the impeachment of judges and their removal from

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office under this provision as being supplementary to

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the provisions of JB-1 which provided another specific

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process for the removal of judges from office?

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Boyer.

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DELEGATE BOYER: Yes, you are talking about the