>>You are giving far too much credit to Clinton and too little to your own and others' vindictive inclinations.
Yeah, my inclination is to follow the law and its requirement that no man is above it. You are good at pounding the table but fail the intelligence test hence your resort to the typical liberal tactic of casting aspersions.
In your world the Dean of Yale Law School must be a warlock.
Yale Law School Debates Impeachment
By Brigitte Greenberg
Associated Press Writer
Friday, September 25, 1998; 9:18 a.m. EDT
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Yale Law School is not responsible for
the legal interpretations of alumnus Bill Clinton. So say its scholars.
Even though President Clinton got his legal schooling from Yale,
professors say it doesn't teach students to parse words to twist the law.
''I think you have to tell the truth,'' said Law School Dean Anthony
Townsend Kronman, a 1975 graduate who was an acquaintance of
Clinton at the school. ''It has to be part of your professional character and
it is not something that can be taught by putting it down in a rule book and
handing it to students.''
About 300 law students packed a school auditorium Thursday to hear
Townsend and other scholars debate the future of Clinton. One professor
questioned what students were learning from the courses.
''I worry, do we teach you that all that counts is your brains, your
creativity? I worry that we teach you the Constitution means whatever you
can make it mean,'' said Professor Kate Stith.
''How can you lie under oath if there are no lies, if words have no
meaning, if ... it all depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is?'' she
asked.
Stith was referring to Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony in which
he was asked a question about whether he was having a sexual
relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. He responded by
distinguishing the past from the present tenses of the word ''is.''
Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton both graduated from Yale
Law School in 1973. Clinton's private attorney, David Kendall, also
attended Yale then.
Professor George L. Priest, who believes impeachment is in order, said
the president tried to use his law school rearing as a weapon against
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.
''The president is a lawyer. He knows the significance of a sworn
affidavit,'' he said.
Professor Bruce Ackerman predicted Clinton would not be impeached
and called the release of Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony ''a
government-subsidized pornographic broadcast.''
''This is not a constitutional crisis. It is a tempest in a teapot,'' he said.
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That last prof is a partisan who will be proved wrong. Someone should teach him the law: Impeachment is not a Constitutional crisis, it's an explicit Constitutional remedy.
Btw, both the Harvard and Yale papers have called for Clinton to leave office. Coven anyone? |
