Thursday: Rare impeachment proceedings against federal judge

It's a rare event to have a federal judge impeached but today the House takes on the second case in a year:

We have a rarity on the floor in the House of Representatives Thursday. The House will debate and vote on four articles of impeachment of federal Judge Thomas Porteous of New Orleans.
Porteous (pronounced PORR-tee-us) is accused of engineering a kickback scheme with two attorneys, accepting bribes from an attorney who argued a case before him, having a corrupt relationship with bailbondsmen and helping them with their business, lying to the FBI and Senate, and not telling the truth in his own bankruptcy filing.

President Clinton appointed Porteous to the federal bench in 1994. The Senate confirmed him later that fall.