U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr., who was impeached and removed from the Louisiana bench last month, resigned from practicing law, the state's Supreme Court ruled.Porteous, 64, is the eighth federal judge to be convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office through impeachment. He was convicted on four articles of impeachment by the Senate in December 2010 and barred from holding any federal office.
The Louisiana Supreme Court announced that it had granted Porteous' request for resignation in lieu of discipline.
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He gets to turn in his license so he won't get disciplined -- in other words, he calls the shots.
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