Charlie, my boy

Oops....can't use that word "boy".  Might be racist.  Anyhow, we're talking about Charlie Rangel here.  Yep, Mr. Clean.  As you may or may not remember, Charlie was censured by the House of Representatives and stripped of his chairmanship.  So, what did he do?  Yep, just like any self-respecting liberal, he sued.  However, it didn't turn out as he hoped.

A civil lawsuit against members of the House and Congressional staff filed by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) was dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Columbia on Wednesday. Rangel sued House Speaker John Boehner and other House members in April over his 2010 censure in the House of Representatives.

The court granted the dismissal on the first three of those grounds and concluded:

In the end, everything on Rangel’s wish list implicates insurmountable separation-of-powers barriers to the Court’s exercise of authority. This Court is a court of limited jurisdiction under Article III, and Rangel has not properly asserted any claim within the bounds of that jurisdiction. The House has wide discretion to discipline its Members under the Discipline Clause, and this Court may not lightly intrude upon that discretion. Moreover, Members of Congress (along with their aides) are entitled to broad—although not unlimited—immunity under the Speech or Debate Clause. And perhaps most problematic is Rangel’s unprecedented view that this Court may order the House to, in effect, un-censure him. Rangel’s quarrel is with the House, and it must stay there; he may not under these circumstances enlist the Court’s involvement in that quarrel.

Damn.  Some common sense from a federal judge.  Must not have been an Obama appointee.

For those who may want some history, Rangel succeeded Adam Clayton Powell Jr. for his congressional seat.  And old Adam had ethics and corruption issues as well.  Maybe there's something in the water there in Harlem.

H/T to Big Government at Breitbart.