The Senate found U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. guilty on four articles of impeachment Wednesday, removing him from his lifetime appointment to the federal bench in Louisiana and denying him his federal pension. Porteous, 63, sat in the well of the Senate as members cast their votes against him. He is just the eighth judge in American history to be removed from office by the Senate.Full Article and Source:
Senate Removes Judge Thomas Porteous Jr. Following Impeachment Trial
Hopefully, this is the beginning of cleaning up the bench.
ReplyDeleteWhat I like is they denied him his pension. That's almost unheard of!
ReplyDeleteIt took long enough!
ReplyDeleteWill there be a criminal prosecution and conviction? More importantly, will lawmakers mandate the legal reforms needed to protect the public against such negligence and corruption? Heck, with very few exceptions, even NASGA's membership has ignored the need for the safeguards which have been proposed to protect us against the perps who would take advantage of us during our final hours, while under a Do Not Resuscitate order and on a morphine drip -- even after the Ohio Attorney General's Elder Abuse Commission repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to listen over an 18-month period.
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