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

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!

Which federal judge, impeached by the House and removed by the Senate for his role in a bribery scheme, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives three years later (the very chamber that had impeached him). He served in Congress for nearly three decades and cast his own votes in presidential impeachments?

Hint: He was appointed by Jimmy Carter and made history as his state’s first Black federal judge, years before the bribery scandal that cost him the robe.

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