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| https://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/latest-headlines/senate-removes-judge-from-office- | Senate removes judge from office, Dec. 8, 2010 | 2014-12-08 | 2014 | 2014-12 | Democrat | House | MO | Claire McCaskill | M001170 | www.mccaskill.senate.gov | legacy | Senate removes judge from office, Dec. 8, 2010 Monday, December 8, 2014 By: Andrew Glass On this day in 2010, for the first time in more than two decades, the Senate voted to oust a federal judge. All 96 senators present found Louisiana District Judge G. Thomas Porteous guilty of having betrayed the legal profession by soliciting cash payments from attorneys with business before his court. This was one of four articles of impeachment that had been brought against Porteous by the House. Some senators supported Porteous on the other three articles, with 27 voting in his favor on the one concerning meals, trips and car repairs that he was accused of receiving from a bail bondsman. The senators also voted 94-2 to disqualify him from holding future federal office. Since a quorum is required at all times for impeachment deliberations to proceed, at least half of the Senate’s members sat in the chamber during the lame-duck session for nearly the whole day. After the Senate had rendered its verdict, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who had chaired the impeachment investigation, said: “The fact that we set aside everything that we were doing and came together and sat as a Senate and listened to the arguments and deliberated extensively about this impeachment should be reassuring to every American.” Porteous had been nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994. He had been suspended with pay since 2008. In a statement, Porteous said, “I am deeply saddened to be removed from office, but I felt it was important not just to me but to the judiciary to take this fight to the Senate…. While I still believe these allegations did not rise to the level of impeachable offenses as a constitutional matter, I understand how people of good faith could disagree.” The vote marked the eighth time the Senate has removed a federal judge from office. Print Email Tweet | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |