Back in 1977,.....Democrat Congressman Alcee Lamarr Hastings, who is now and currently the U.S. Representative for Floridas 20th congressional district, serving in Congress since 1993,.... had been a circuit court judge in Broward County, Florida...... In 1979, he was appointed by President Carter as a federal U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida. ....In 1981, Hastings was charged with accepting a bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence.....in 1983, he was acquitted by a jury after his alleged co-conspirator, William Borders, refused to testify in court....In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for bribery and perjury by a vote of 413-3....The Senate had the option to forbid Hastings from ever seeking federal office again, but did not do so.....Hastings filed suit in federal court claiming that his impeachment trial was invalid because he was tried by a Senate committee, not in front of the full Senate, and that he had been acquitted in a criminal trial. Judge Stanley Sporkin ruled in favor of Hastings, remanding the case back to the Senate....Alcee Hastings knows his way around the federal courthouse, and he has now gone on the record with this direct scourging of this current Republican Congress, and their specious and frivolous lawsuit against President Obama....Please Listen;....Peace.....
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:50:29 +0000