Impeachment Of Judge Proceeds.

A House committee has endorsed impeachment charges against a federal judge accused of sexual assault and lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The House Judiciary Committee voted 29 to 0 to approve four articles of impeachment against Judge Samuel B. Kent, who serves on a United States District Court in Texas. That sends the charges against him to the full House for a vote. Judge Kent, 59, is scheduled to go to prison June 15 to serve a 33-month sentence. He pleaded guilty last month to lying to a federal court of appeals investigative committee about sexual assaults involving two female employees. He told President Obama last week that he did not intend to resign as a judge until June 2010. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]