U.S. District Judge Alcee L. Hastings was convicted by the Senate (in 1989) of engaging in a "corrupt conspiracy" to extort a $150,000 bribe in a case before him, marking the first time a federal official has been impeached and removed from office for a crime he had been acquitted of by a jury.
Hastings's conviction was reversed by a U.S. district judge in 1992 – two months before his election to Congress. Judge Stanley Sporkin said that Hastings should have been tried by the full Senate and not by a special 12-member committee, which convicted him on corruption charges. It was the first time a Senate conviction was overturned by a federal judge. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jan. 1993 that federal courts had no authority to review the procedures of a Senate impeachment trial. But the decision had no effect on Hastings' congressional career, which continues to this day.
As I recall, Hastings case was thrown out because the wiretap on the perp (whom Hastings called to solicit a bribe)was thrown out. So a Federal judge overturned his Congressional conviction, just in time for his swearing-in, and a year later the SCOTUS ruled that a Federal judge couldn't overturn a conviction -- but Congress did nothing. Orrin Hatch, by the way, voted to acquit Hastings.
I'm pro-life, but reports like these make me wish all the traitors in Congress would drop dead.