Today the Committee Chairman is THIS GUY
In January it will be a fellow named Alcee Hastings
That Hastings’s name is even being mentioned for the position -- or, indeed, any public office -- is itself noteworthy. A former federal judge, Hastings was named to the bench for the Southern District of Florida by Jimmy Carter in 1979. But in 1981 Hastings found himself embroiled in a corruption scandal, indicted on charges of conspiracy to accept a bribe. The case involved two brothers, Frank and Thomas Romano, who had been convicted in 1980 on 21 counts of racketeering. Together with attorney William Borders Jr., Hastings, who presided over the Romanos' case, allegedly hatched a plot to solicit a bribe from the brothers. In exchange for a $150,000 cash payment, Hastings would return some $845,000 of their $1.2 million in seized assets after they had served their three-year jail terms. Taped conversations between Hastings and Borders confirmed that the judge was a party to the plot, though he was acquitted by a jury in 1983.
Hastings did not evade justice for long. A report compiled by a special Investigating Committee in 1986 found clear evidence that Hasting’s had covered up his role in the bribery scheme. In 1988 the Democrat-led House voted 413 to 3 to impeach Hastings on numerous counts of conspiracy and perjury; a Democrat-controlled Senate subsequently removed him from his judgeship. The most withering criticism of Hastings came from a fellow black American, Michigan’s Democratic Congressman John Conyers. Admitting that he was sympathetic to Hastings’s politics, Conyers nonetheless condemned his role in “high crimes and misdemeanors,” and rendered a devastating verdict: “We did not wage the civil rights struggle in order to substitute one form of judicial corruption for another.”
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What an upstanding fella - an ideal Democrat candidate for this position, not to mention for being a Congressman, too.
Hastings is an absolute Brownshirt. I lived for a few years in Miami as a teen, and this guy used to get sent to schools for "sensitivity/diversity" training. The method, thank heavens, was to have him speak to small groups of us at once. Therefore we got to grill him, those who were willing. I moved around a lot and was always the new kid, so I never cared and chose to ask questions myself, along with many of my outraged Jewish friends there. His answers were all stock, that the black kids were all at a disadvantage because of the rest of us historically. Meanwhile, my black friends and aquaintances in advanced classes who regularly got verbally (and sometimes physically) assaulted and called "oreos" just ignored the idiot. They'd had enough. I was in private school within a year.
I never thought I'd hear from this idiot again. This is a bad omen, that's for sure. I thought he was just a local annoyance.
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