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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (7781)	10/5/1998 2:07:00 PM
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What's Clinton's batting average with the Supreme Court? Clinton Lawyers Go to Supreme Court WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawyers for President Clinton today asked the Supreme Court to hear their appeal of a ruling that certain aides to the president could not use a claim of attorney-client privilege as the basis for refusing to answer grand jury questions in the Monica Lewsinky case. The matter centers on Clinton's effort to shield presidential confidant Bruce Lindsey from answering certain questions by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr about his conversations with Clinton. ''Attorney-client privilege is a bedrock princple of our system of justice,'' White House lawyer Charles Ruff said in a brief written statement. ''The confidentiality of discussions between a president and his counsel about official matters is in the public interest, because the American people benefit when their president makes sound decisions on the basis of frank advice.'' The White House lost its argument in a federal court of appeals case last summer. In today's petition to the Supreme Court, the White House lawyers argued that Starr misled the court of appeals by asserting that the threat of impeachment was ''too remote a possibility to be considered by the court'' in the attorney-client privilege matter. Yet, the White House said, Starr's office at the same time was preparing to refer impeachment charges to the House of Representatives. Ruff, in his statement today, said the court of appeals ruling ''upsets the constitutional balance of powers and deprives this and future presidents the right of confidential discussions with legal advisers on official matters.'' newsday.com