Rep. Adam Schiff, the House committee chairman who has taken the lead role in Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, has one big thing going for him.
The California Democrat is 2-0 on the impeachment battlefield so far, after leading a panel that secured House impeachments of two federal judges in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Schiff also led the prosecution team in the Senate trials, which saw one judge removed from office and the other resign before the trial got far.
Only 15 federal judges in U.S. history have been impeached, and Schiff played a key role in two of those cases.
If the House impeaches Trump, Schiff likely will be among the managers in the Senate trial that follows, said Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, who in 2010 observed and wrote about the most recent impeachment trial for a judge.
"His long-standing pattern of corrupt conduct, so utterly lacking in honesty and integrity, demonstrates his unfitness to serve as a United States district court judge," Schiff said of Porteous, echoing one of the charges.
"Judge Porteous engaged in a persistent pattern of corruption throughout his career, on both the state and federal bench," Schiff said after the Senate vote.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/07/rep-adam-schiff-trumps-nemesis-is-2-0-so-far-on-impeachment/
The California Democrat is 2-0 on the impeachment battlefield so far, after leading a panel that secured House impeachments of two federal judges in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Schiff also led the prosecution team in the Senate trials, which saw one judge removed from office and the other resign before the trial got far.
Only 15 federal judges in U.S. history have been impeached, and Schiff played a key role in two of those cases.
If the House impeaches Trump, Schiff likely will be among the managers in the Senate trial that follows, said Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, who in 2010 observed and wrote about the most recent impeachment trial for a judge.
"His long-standing pattern of corrupt conduct, so utterly lacking in honesty and integrity, demonstrates his unfitness to serve as a United States district court judge," Schiff said of Porteous, echoing one of the charges.
"Judge Porteous engaged in a persistent pattern of corruption throughout his career, on both the state and federal bench," Schiff said after the Senate vote.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/07/rep-adam-schiff-trumps-nemesis-is-2-0-so-far-on-impeachment/
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