Stop the Press: Alcee Hastings
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Alcee Hastings-the congressman from Florida’s 23rd Congressional District-was elected to office in 1992, even though controversy surrounded Hastings throughout his 1992 campaign, election, and subsequent seating in the House of Representatives.
In 1979, Alcee Hastings was appointed a federal judge for the Southern District of Florida by President Jimmy Carter.
Alcee Lamar Hastings is a member of the House of Representatives representing Florida’s 23rd congressional district.
Alcee Lamar Hastings, a Democrat, has represented the 23rd District of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1993.
Two years later, Hastings was indicted on charges of conspiring to solicit a bribe from two defendants awaiting sentencing in his court.
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In 1992, a federal judge remanded Hastings’ conviction back to the Senate, arguing that Hastings should have received a trial by the full Senate.
District, 1992-; House Rules Committee, 2001-.
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.
HASTINGS, Alcee Lamar, a Representative from Florida; born in Altamonte Springs, Seminole County, Fla., September 5, 1936; graduated Crooms Academy, Sanford, Fla, 1953; B.A., Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., 1958; attended, Howard University School of Law, Washington, D.C., 1958-1960; J.D., Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Tallahassee, 1963; lawyer, private practice; judge of the circuit court of Broward County, Fla., 1977-1979; appointed United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 1979-1989; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third and to the seven succeeding Congresses.
Following this report, the House Judiciary Committee approved seventeen articles of impeachment against Hastings.
A Representative since 1993 and a Democrat, Hastings was a lawyer and judge of the circuit court of Broward County, Florida and of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Alleged co-conspirator, attorney William Borders went to jail again for refusing to testify in the impeachment proceedings, but was later given a full pardon by Bill Clinton on his last day in office.
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Admitted to the Florida bar, 1963; circuit judge, 1977-79; U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of FL, 1979-89 ; House of Rep., Florida’s 23rd Congr.
According to a report in the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, after Hastings’s acquittal in 1983, a special investigating committee of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Hastings had fabricated evidence to win acquittal and two fellow judges alleged that Hastings had perjured himself to avoid conviction.
On September 17, 1992 subsequent to his impeachment, conviction, and removal from the U.S. District Court but prior to his election to the House of Representatives, U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin ruled that the Senate improperly convicted Hastings for bribery in 1989.
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The Judicial Council of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, however, soon launched a separate investigation into the matter which lasted nearly four years.
In 1983, while Hastings was a defendant in a criminal case and under oath, Hastings knowingly and falsely stated that he and Borders never made any agreement to solicit a bribe from defendants in the Romano case.
He was then convicted in 1989 by the United States Senate, becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate.
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.
Hastings filed suit in federal court claiming that his impeachment trial was invalid because he was tried by a Senate committee, not in front of the full Senate, and that he had been acquitted in a criminal trial.
In 1979, Hastings was appointed a federal judge for the Southern District of Florida by President Jimmy Carter.
The vote on the first article was 69 for and 26 opposed, providing five votes more than the two-thirds of those present that were needed to convict.
Comm.; Lauderhill Democratic Club; Hollywood Hills Dem.
In Hastings’s case, the House voted 413-3 to impeach and the Senate voted 69-26 to convict on charges of perjury and conspiracy to accept a bribe.
Memberships: AME Church; NAACP; Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce; Family Christian Assn.; ACLU; Southern Poverty Law Ctr.; NOW; Planned Parenthood; Women and Children First, Inc.; Sierra Club; Costeau Soc.; Broward County Dem.
Born Alcee Lamar Hastings, September 5, 1936 in Altamonte Springs, FL; son of Julius C. and Mildred L. Hastings; divorced; three children: Alcee Lamar II, Chelsea, Leigh.
