The Democrats are trying this with President Trump but they are letting one of their own slide bigly.
From Bryan Preston at PJ Media:
If Impeaching Trump Is About Preventing Him From Holding Future Office, Why Is Democrat Alcee Hastings So Powerful in the House?
To hear Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats explain why they’re still hellbent on impeaching Donald Trump despite the fact that he’s no longer president, they say it’s about what he might do in the future. She and the Democrat caucus wants to make sure he doesn’t hold office again. The media picks up that part of the story frequently.
Bryan establishes the territory and the dramatis personae and then, takes a look over here:
Hastings was appointed to be a federal judge in 1979. In 1981, he was accused of soliciting bribes and obstructing justice in the trial of an associate.
In 1981, a federal grand jury indicted Judge Alcee L. Hastings, appointed to the federal district court in 1979, along with his friend William A. Borders, a Washington, D.C. lawyer. Hastings was charged with conspiracy and obstruction of justice for soliciting a $150,000 bribe in return for reducing the sentences of two mob-connected felons convicted in Hastings’ court.
FBI sting operation, continued corruption and malfeasance and subsequently, this recommendation:
The panel recommended further action to the U.S. Judicial Conference, which, in turn, informed the House of Representatives on March 17, 1987, that Judge Alcee Hastings should be impeached and removed from office.
And then this happened:
He was impeached by the United States House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate. He was kicked out of his judgeship in 1989.
So what happened after Hastings’ shameful episode in which he was convicted of serious criminal corruption in office? Was he tossed out of polite society never to be heard from again? Did the Democrats shun him and prevent him from ever holding federal office again?
Sadly, no. Four years later he ran for the U.S. House — a federal office — from Florida and he won. He joined the House Democratic caucus and is still in the House to this very day.
So to recap, Hastings had a federal office — he was a federal judge, appointed by President Jimmy Carter and confirmed by the Senate. He was impeached and convicted on serious and substantiated charges of public corruption, and he was removed from that office.
The Democrats pretend Hastings was never impeached and have had no problem counting him among their number ever since he won his House seat in 1993, going on 28 years now. He’s not just a rank-and-file member. Hastings is one of the Democrats’ more powerful members.
This same Representative Hastings is still up to his old tricks - he was using Federal dollars to employ and maintain his mistress. This came to light in 2019. A fun article to read. Bryan points out that they are doing this to President Trump because they fear him.
They fear that he will expose their corruption and piss-poor leadership and take their rice bowls away. Or, will red-pill enough of We The People that they will demand satisfaction. Schumer, Pelosi, et. al. fail to realize that regardless of the outcome of this little charade, Obi-Wan Kenobi's line from Star Wars is prophetic: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
President Trump tried to elevate everyone in DC to his level. They (and the media) tried to drag him down to theirs.
They know no other way.
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