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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?

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To: Who, me? who wrote (5922)	9/15/1998 10:33:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) of 13994

Hi Who, me?; I heard a pretty convincing argument on the radio while driving over to the polling place this afternoon. (Primaries in WA state.) It was against the argument: Impeachment is only for public crimes of the president. Since the crimes Clinton has been accused of are private, they are not impeachable. It is pretty clear that the constitution prevents the criminal indictment of the President by any body other than the senate. The reason for this is to prevent some local prosecutor from putting the Big Creep in jail, and then convicting him of a specious crime using a local jury. For instance, you probably could have got a local Wash. D.C. jury to convict Ronald Reagan of whatever you wanted. Therefore, any crimes committed by the Big Creep have to be handled by the senate. Otherwise, it would be impossible to indict a president for a private crime, like slapping the first lady around, or spanking Chelsea. I found the argument well reasoned, and thought you guys would appreciate hearing it. -- Carl

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