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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Who, me? who wrote (18672)	8/31/1998 6:22:00 PM
From: P.T.Burnem	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Jail to the Chief? Senate Hearings Scheduled for 9/9/98... Ashcroft plans hearing on immunity 5.59 p.m. ET (2159 GMT) August 31, 1998 By Libby Quaid, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate Judiciary Committee panel will summon legal scholars next week to debate whether the president is subject to criminal law, Sen. John Ashcroft said Monday. Ashcroft, R-Mo., a potential White House candidate who has called on President Clinton to resign over the Monica Lewinsky matter, said the hearings will explore questions about the scope and powers of the president that should be addressed before any action in the House. Ashcroft, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Constitution subcommittee, scheduled a Sept. 9 hearing before the panel. A half-dozen legal experts are expected to address the question, "Impeachment or indictment: Is a sitting president subject to compulsory criminal process?'' It could take months for the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on any report by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and for the House to vote on whether to send articles of impeachment to the Senate. House members return from summer recess after Labor Day but are scheduled to meet for only a month before adjourning for the fall election campaign. Ashcroft has made it clear he thinks the House has enough information to act independently of a report from Starr. Clinton's admission of an affair constitutes a "betrayal of trust, the breaking and rupturing of the kind of relationship that's necessary for a president to have any effectiveness to operate,'' Ashcroft said over the weekend on CNN's "Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields.'' "It certainly constitutes a necessary threshold which would satisfy the constitutional requirement for the House to act in beginning impeachment proceedings,'' he added. Ashcroft's staff was finalizing a witness list and planned to release it Tuesday. A tentative lineup includes Hofstra University law professor Eric M. Freedman and Georgetown law professor Susan Low Bloch, a spokesman said.