The new Congress met for a few weeks in March 1867, then adjourned, leaving the House Committee on the Judiciary behind, charged with reporting back to the full House whether there were grounds for Johnson to be impeached.
The fact that we are fighting that battle still shows you how entrenched the issues are, how difficult they are to uproot ― even with the force of the judiciary behind you.
The long-delayed introduction of television cameras in courts in England and Wales is "shameful" and has left the UK judiciary lagging behind many other civilised countries, according to a senior ITN executive.
It chronicles how the followers of the imam, Fethullah Gulen, have proliferated within the police and the judiciary, working behind the scenes to become one of Turkey's most powerful political forces — and, he contends, one of its most ruthless, smearing opponents and silencing dissenters.
In the 1950s, the then lord chief justice, Lord Goddard, had claimed in a legislative capacity that the high court judiciary was solidly behind him – predictably, for a confessed authoritarian – in supporting the penalty.
Although Shahabuddin has been linked to the case for some time, the timing of the warrant is seen as deeply suspicious, with analysts assuming either the country's military establishment or the judiciary must be behind it.
A recent survey by the Asia Foundation ranked it second behind the judiciary as institutions with integrity (the monarchy was not an option).
Before the trial opened, Ali Rezaian criticised the decision by the Iranian judiciary to hold it behind closed doors and said his brother had lost 18kg (40lb) while in jail.
The decision is a major blow to General Pervez Musharraf, the president, and a tactical victory for the secular political parties, who have rallied behind the judiciary in protest at what they regard as an attempt to undermine judicial independence.
And behind the judiciary stood a French administration, and social elite, much of which had smoothly shifted its allegiance to Vichy in the terrible summer of 1940, and only slipped back when the tide of the war changed.
State institutions, with the partial exception of the judiciary, have mostly fallen in behind Morsi.
