Deposed Judge Wins Congress Primary
Former federal judge Alcee Hastings, whose impeachment was recently reversed on procedural grounds, is favored to win a seat in Congress, which had tried to remove him from the bench.
Hastings, who was Florida’s first black judge, won Thursday’s Democratic runoff primary. In November he will face a white Republican real estate broker in a newly-drawn district with a large proportion of black Democrats.
Florida will send at least one, and as many as three, blacks to Congress this year for the first time since Reconstruction.
Get the L.A. Times Politics newsletter
Deeply reported insights into legislation, politics and policy from Sacramento, Washington and beyond. In your inbox three times per week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
