A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) that had sought to overturn the 2010 House censure of the New York congressman for financial wrongdoing, the AP reports.
The judge ruled that Rangel’s demands implicate “insurmountable separation-of-powers barriers” to the court’s authority.


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