Source: Nworeport

Democratic Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings, who helped set the rules for Trump’s impeachment vote as the vice chairman of the House Committee on Rules, was himself impeached in the House on an array of corruption charges and convicted and removed from his position as a federal district court judge by the Senate in 1989.

In 1989, as a Florida federal district court judge, he was impeached by the House of Representatives (after an astonishing 413-3 vote on 17 articles of impeachment) and removed from office by the Senate for bribery, perjury and falsifying evidence.

Astonishingly, on Tuesday, the disgraced Democrat former judge was allowed to set the Rules Committee set the parameters for debate on impeachment, in what CBS News called a “contentious but comparatively collegial” session.

“The president’s actions, in your words, were so wrong,” Hastings said, according to the Palm Beach Post, referring to…