Posted on 04/06/2021 7:36:48 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
Longtime Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings (D), the dean of the Florida congressional delegation, died Tuesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, two leadership sources confirmed. He was 84.
Hastings started his career as a civil rights attorney and was nominated by former President Carter in 1979 as a federal judge in Florida. Nearly a decade later, he was impeached by the House for bribery and perjury, and convicted by the Senate, making him only the sixth federal judge in U.S. history to be ousted from office by the Senate. Hastings later made an unlikely political comeback in 1992, winning a seat in the same House of Representatives that impeached him years earlier.
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As I also understand it, pancreatic cancer, probably because of the properties you just described, is usually undetected until it metastasizes. Diagnosis is usually Stage 4.
Gee, that’s a shame.
Given his open support of the “trans community” from seven days ago, does not seem likely.
Used to be rare to live to 84, doesn’t seem rare anymore.
EXCELLENT!
Nice work.......
Hastings has always been known as a corrupt POS politician so I expect him to be eulogized by his corrupt Dem comrades
😐😐😐😐
That’s all I can muster.
Someone just as crooked will probably replace him.
Years ago, I was in DC.
I stopped by the House Judiciary Committee’s office and got a copy of the committee’s research and debate on the Hastings impeachment. I still have it somewhere.
This guy was 110% guilty as sin. The vote in committee and on the House floor was overwhelmingly bi-partisan. IIRC, a couple of members of the Congressional Black Caucus even voted FOR his impeachment.
But sadly, garbage floats to the top and a few years later, he was elected to Congress.
It's the House of Representatives. "Crooked" is in the job description.
The district is a +31 D district, so unless a Marxist, a Social Demoncrat and a Republican who is a Trumpet...
Or more crooked...
Rat controlled House and Senate benched him from his bench. And now the ex’d judge meets a judge immune to BS and race cards.
Convicted criminal Alcee Hastings is dead.
Good.
>>>he was impeached by the House for bribery and perjury, and convicted by the Senate, making him only the sixth federal judge in U.S. history to be ousted from office by the Senate.<<<
That moved him to the top of the list for the House of Representatives. It’s the DEMOCRAT way.
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