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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: jlallen who wrote (4257)9/21/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: dougjn  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
If the process is procedurally fair, and substantively true to the Constitutional standard of only impeaching for a "High Crime and Misdemeanor" it is not.

If it is done for political reasons, and for political disguest, it would be a form of Congressional coup.

If Congress had in fact removed Johnson from office, that would indeed have been a form of coup. It was mostly for political reasons that articles of impeachment were voted in the House, with only the cover of a technical violation of law. Thankfully that horrible precedent was avoided.

As nearly all now agree, Nixon would have been impeached and removed from office had he not resigned, and that would have entirely proper. And no coup whatsoever.

There would NEVER be such an agreement if Clinton were removed on these facts. Far, far, from it.

Doug
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