In 1988, the Democratic-controlled United States House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for bribery and perjury by a vote of 4133. He was then convicted on October 20, 1989, by the United States Senate, becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate. The Senate, in two hours of roll calls, voted on 11 of the 17 articles of impeachment. It convicted Hastings of eight of the 11 articles. The vote on the first article was 69 for and 26 opposed.
Alleged co-conspirator attorney William Borders went to jail again for refusing to testify in the impeachment proceedings, but was later given a full pardon by President Bill Clinton on his last day in office.
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 to the Senate, but stayed his ruling pending the outcome of an appeal to the Supreme Court in a similar case regarding Judge Walter Nixon, who had also been impeached and removed.
Sporkin found some "crucial distinctions"[8] between Nixon's case and Hastings's specifically, that Nixon had been convicted criminally, and that Hastings was not found guilty by two-thirds of the committee who actually "tried" his impeachment in the Senate. He added that Hastings had a right to trial by the full Senate.
The Supreme Court, however, ruled in Nixon v. United States that the federal courts have no jurisdiction over Senate impeachment matters, so Sporkin's ruling was vacated and Hastings's conviction and removal were upheld.
This impeachment process is like an Organized Crime Family meeting to decide how to punish a member’s nephew for shop-lifting a loaf of bread.
Over the top....
What would shifty shift say to be tried on his own rules?
It’s going to be fun hearing how PDJT handles this at his rallies.
There no such thing as “Obstruction of Congress”. The Executive is a Co Equal branch of Govt. If Congress think the Executive is abusing its Privilege power they can take it up and court and have the Supreme Court rule on it.
This is why I utterly loath the current leadership of Democrat Fascist Party these days. They simply make up a lie and scream it over and over hoping it will be taken as truth by voters. It is utter scumbag behavior. If Democrat Fascists cannot make their case without rabidly lying daily like this, they have all ready lost the debate.
This is the part where a real media would be ridiculing them into permanent irrelevance.