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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks
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To: Wowzer who wrote (16235)12/21/1998 12:50:00 AM
From: BelowTheCrowd   of 18691
 
The whole "no constitutional basis for censure" is pretty poor. The two houses of congress pass both "praise" and "censure" motions all the time. Thanking charity X, condemning the actions of foreign leader Y. Showing "unanimous support" for some policy or another, expressing "disgust and revulsion" at other things. Read the Congressional Record. Happens dozens of times a month.

To put it simply. Nothing in the world stops a member of the house from proposing a resolution stating "We think Billy-Boy is a jerk." Nothing stops it from coming to a vote. Nothing stops it from passing. And (of course) it doesn't really mean much if it does.

And even now that he's impeached, nothing stops the Senate from trying him, convicting him, and deciding to punish him by prohibiting the consumption of french fries in the White House. The only limitation is that they can't do anything BEYOND removing him from office and barring him from further service. Even a financial penalty may not be legal (one could argue that requiring him to pay any money of his own is, in fact, a punishment above and beyond just firing him).

Bottom line. We've never done this before in this kind of environment. The requirements are vague. And just about anything the congress does other than acquit or remove from office will end up in the Supreme court. And they don't have the votes to remove him from office.

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