House panel to decide if judge should be impeached

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A U.S. district judge is scheduled to appear before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today as it considers whether to impeach him over allegations of misconduct.

U.S. Judge Manuel Real’s testimony comes the same week that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer turned over a 188-page report that reveals judges have failed to investigate complaints of their colleagues. Breyer’s commission noted that an appeals court bungled the investigation into Real’s intervention in a bankruptcy case.

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