Rangel loses court appeal of 2010 censure
Source: The Hill
A D.C. federal appeals court ruled Friday that Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) cannot challenge his 2010 full House censure over ethics violations.
Rangel filed a lawsuit against Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and members of the House Ethics Committee in 2013, arguing the proceedings that led to his censure were biased against him and lacked due process.
The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold a U.S. district judge's 2013 dismissal of Rangel's complaint on the grounds that it didn't fall in federal courts' jurisdiction.
"Rangel must vindicate his reputation in the one court that can hear his claim: the court of public opinion," Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson wrote in the opinion.
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