[3] The 89th United States Congress had established the Ad Hoc Special Subcommittee on Judicial Behavior of the House Committee on the Judiciary, which ran an impeachment inquiry investigating Chandler.

[4] The Judicial Council of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit suspended him from his duties.

The Supreme Court upheld this action in Chandler v. Judicial Council of Tenth Circuit, 398 U.S. 74 (1970).

The House soon approved a formal investigation that led to the impeachment and indictment of Justices N. B. Johnson and Earl Welch.

[6] The Tulsa World reported that Chandler had died in Presbyterian Hospital in New York City while being treated for pneumonia and bleeding ulcer for about two weeks.

His grandson, Stephen Chandler Sims, told the World that the judge had been treated for a bleeding ulcer during the previous summer.