[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 46 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 46

   To provide that a justice or judge convicted of a felony shall be 
                   suspended from office without pay.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

 Mr. Thurmond introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide that a justice or judge convicted of a felony shall be 
                   suspended from office without pay.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 3 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by--
            (1) inserting ``(a)'' before ``Whenever the'';
            (2) adding at the end thereof the following:
    ``(b) Justices of the Supreme Court shall hold office during good 
behavior.
    ``(c) For purposes of the tenure or appointment of a justice, `good 
behavior' shall not include any offense committed by a justice if the 
conviction of such offense is punishable by death or imprisonment for a 
term exceeding one year. Any justice so convicted shall be suspended 
from office without pay pending the disposition of impeachment 
proceedings.
    Sec. 2. Sections 44(b) and 134(a) of title 28, United States Code, 
are each amended by adding at the end thereof the following: ``For 
purposes of the tenure or appointment of a judge, `good behavior' shall 
not include any offense committed by a judge if the conviction of such 
offense is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one 
year. Any judge so convicted shall be suspended from office without pay 
pending the disposition of impeachment proceedings.''.

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