Congress Threw This Judge Off The Bench. The Voters Sent Him Right Back To Congress.

Answer: Alcee Hastings. Carter put him on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 1979, making him the state’s first African-American federal judge. He was accused of conspiring to solicit a $150,000 bribe to soften two racketeers’ sentences; a jury acquitted him in 1983, but a judicial panel concluded he’d lied and fabricated his defense, and the House impeached him in 1988 on 17 articles. Read more here.