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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (22205)	12/18/1998 4:33:00 PM
From: Bill Grant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

TP <<The next President can choose to pardon either then or later. That does not make the original person President again. Once he is removed he is removed. He does not go directly to jail or pay $200. Any criminal actions related or not to the impeachment are a separate matter. The new President can choose to pardon or not.>> From the Constitution, Article II, Section 2 "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the United States...he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have the Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, EXCEPT IN CASES OF IMPEACHMENT" (my emphasis)

To: TigerPaw who wrote (22205)	12/18/1998 4:40:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 67261

I accept your version. My source was just some talk show guy. He put it forth to explain why Clinton so preferred a censure over impeachment.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (22205)	12/18/1998 4:54:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 67261

Guilty Guilty Guilty Me that is... I shamelessly stold this quote from another post. I quote from Morison, Commager and Leuchtenburg's The Growth of the American Republic Volum I, pp 750 -- 752. Altogether, the impeachment of Johnson was one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of the Federal Government, one that barely failed to suspend the presidential system. For had impeachment succeeded, the Radicals would have established the principle that Congress may remove a President, not for 'high Crimes and Midemeanors,' as required by the Constitution, but for purely political reasons. ... TP (Who would rather be remembered for bad spelling than to have the legacy the RRs* will get) * < New Code Word inserted for variety>