A cup of STFU for Hillary
The latest cup of STFU goes to Hillary Clinton. She’s in a really big primary fight with the “savior” Barrack Obama, she’s got issues with some of the extreme fringe of her party over the Iraq war and what does she do? She names an impeached judge to be her national co-chair.
In 1979, Hastings was appointed a federal judge for the Southern District of Florida by President Jimmy Carter. Two years later, Hastings was indicted on charges of conspiring to solicit a bribe from two defendants awaiting sentencing in his court. Hastings was unanimously acquitted of the charges in 1983.
The Judicial Council of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, however, soon launched a separate investigation into the matter which lasted nearly four years. Ultimately, the council (which was led by former Watergate prosecutor John Doar and comprised of the active appeals court judges for that circuit and three U.S. District judges) found that Hastings was not only guilty of the initial charges, but also that he repeatedly lied during his trial. Following this report, the House Judiciary Committee approved seventeen articles of impeachment against Hastings. Sixteen dealt with the bribery case, while one centered around Hastings’ improper revelation of sensitive government information obtained through a federal wiretap in 1985. In late 1988, the articles passed the House by a vote of 413-3. The Senate, following a trial by a twelve-member committee, chose to convict Hastings on eight of the articles, but opted not to restrict him from seeking federal elected office in the future (which it had the authority to do).
In 1992, a federal judge remanded Hastings’ conviction back to the Senate, arguing that Hastings should have received a trial by the full Senate, and also that his Senate trial constituted “double-jeopardy.” The Supreme Court, however, had ruled in a similar case that the courts have no jurisdiction over impeachment proceedings, and Hastings’ conviction was therefore upheld.
Ok, now think about this. Barrack campaigns as an “outsider”, a 1 term senator against the corruption in Washington, he then lambastes Hillary on the fact that she has an impeached judge as her co-chair. John Conyers had a great speech during that impeachment trial.
“We did not wage that civil rights struggle merely to replace one form of judicial corruption for another,” Conyers said. “The principle of equality requires that a black public official be held to the same standard that other public officials are held to.…Just as race should never disqualify a person from office, race should never insulate a person from the consequences of wrongful conduct.”
Hastings was so radioactive with corruption that when Pelosi and the surrendercrats took over in 2006, Pelosi backed down on giving Hastings the chair on the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee. Yet somehow Hillary thinks that she won’t get tagged with any “same old Washington corruption” crap. Perhaps the Clintons are just so used to corruption that Hastings doesn’t bother them, however I’m envisioning Obama using this against her if the primaries get real close. Hillary, enjoy your cup of STFU. Think before you do something stupid.
