Rep. Gregory Meeks said Wednesday that veteran Rep. John Conyers should step down as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee while the House Ethics Committee probes allegations of sexual misconduct against him.

“I think that he needs to step down and a person should be put up on a temporary or acting basis pending the outcome of the ethics committee,” Meeks told The Post.

“John Conyers is an icon. He’s made America clearly a better place through the fights that he’s done through the civil rights movement and the fights he’s had in congress. And I think that I will always look at him in that regard. But that does not mean when you have allegations that they should not be looked into.”

The Ethics Committee said Tuesday that it had opened an investigation into allegations that Conyers quietly settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 after he allegedly sexually harassed a staffer, BuzzFeed News reported Tuesday.