Who is Alcee Hastings?

When you go back and reread the history on Hastings—who, prior to his election to Congress, was impeached and removed from office as a U.S. District Court judge— it just doesn’t sit well. The vote to impeach him in 1988 was 413-4, with not a single member of the House standing to defend him. While he had been acquitted of bribery charges at trial, a post-trial investigation by the U.S. Court of Appeals concluded that he lied at his trial and faked evidence, and he had in fact plotted with a lawyer to take a payoff for reducing the sentence of a supposed racketeer.

In his Senate trial, John Conyers, a leading black liberal, was one of the prosecutors.

He said: “We argue that he must be removed from office so that he does not teach others that justice may be sold." In 1989, he was convicted by the Senate and removed from the bench.

Is this who Pelosi is going to pass over Jane Harman to put in charge of the Intelligence Committee?