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Alcee Hastings Trial and Impeachment: 1983 & 1989

Hastings Rebounds



After a federal official has been convicted of one or more articles of impeachment, that individual is automatically removed from office. But the Constitution also gives the Senate the choice to take the additional step of barring that official from ever again holding "any office of Honor, Trust, or Profit under the United States." As it happened, the Senate did not choose to do so for Hastings. So in 1992, Hastings ran for Congress from the 23rd District of Florida—his home base in the Miami area. He was elected to the House of Representatives and then re-elected every two years through at least 2000.



John S. Bowman

Suggestions for Further Reading

Congressional Record, 101st Cong., 1st sess, 1989.

New, York Times. See Hastings, Alcee in the New, York Times Index, January 19, 20, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29, 1983; February 2, 3, 5, 6, 1983; March 17, 1989; August 11, 1989; October 20, 21, 24, 1989.

Volcansek, Mary L. Judicial Impeachment None Called It Justice. Champaign Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

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