This just in: The House of Representatives voted unanimously today to impeach New Orleans federal judge Thomas Porteous.

Here’s an AP report on the vote ─ a very rare rebuke.

Only 14 federal judges have ever been impeached.

The House approved four impeachment articles charging Porteous with taking payoffs and lying under oath. The case now goes to the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is needed to convict the judge of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

As we]]> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:14:59 +0000 http://hotfeeder.com/politics/supreme_court_justices_reveal_their_secret_fastfood_preferences_2414674

A new book, Little Billy’s Letters, reveals the little-suspected connection between the Marble Palace and the Golden Arches.

Starting in the early 1990s, prankster Bill Geerhart posed as a 10-year-old boy to ask ridiculous questions of famous persons, including missives asking each of the justices about their fast food tastes.

ÂDear Chief Justice Renquist [sic], read a Dec. 19, 1994, letter. ÂThis is a project for school. What is your favorite McDonalds food? I like the ]]> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:14:59 +0000 http://hotfeeder.com/politics/the_most_interesting_races_in_the_must_watch_state_2414658

Everyone says we should look to Pennsylvania as a bellwether of 2010 politics. We have the most number of competitive Congressional races, and we’ve got major statewide elections that will drive people out to the polls more so than other states in this year’s non-presidential cycle. We also have a very good shot at turning the Pennsylvania House over to GOP – a strictly partisan move I would not have cared much for until the very centrist Democrat House Speaker announced his retirement.]]> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:14:59 +0000 http://hotfeeder.com/politics/nra_more_popular_than_obama_2414654

Good for us, bad for the Administration. Maybe it’s time for him to come around a full 180 and help push a major piece of pro-2A legislation through Congress. Maybe then we can lend President Obama some of NRA’s popularity with voters. Unfortunately, I give the odds on that somewhere south of having Rahm Emanuel showing up naked and screaming obscenities on Chris Cox’s lawn one morning.

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