It’s shocking how many people still don’t understand the impeachment process only a few years after we went through it with President Clinton. The New York Times was forced to run a correction of a correction today after botching its explanation of the removal of Alcee Hastings from the federal bench — here are the two corrections in sequence:

Correction: December 1, 2006

A front-page article on Wednesday about Representative Nancy Pelosi’s decision not to pick Representative Alcee L. Hastings to be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee misstated the timing of Mr. Hastings’s acquittal in a bribery case. He was acquitted in a criminal trial in 1983, not after he was impeached by the Senate and removed as a federal district judge in 1989.

Correction: December 8, 2006

A front-page article on Nov. 29 about Representative Nancy Pelosi’s decision not to pick Representative Alcee L. Hastings to be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee misstated the timing of Mr. Hastings’s acquittal in a bribery case. He was acquitted in a criminal trial in 1983, not after he was impeached and removed as a federal district judge in 1989. A correction in this space last Friday misidentified the body that impeached him. It was the House, not the Senate. (Officials are tried by the Senate and either acquitted or automatically removed from office if convicted.)