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To: ConservativeMan55

House of Representatives can indict; Senate is the jury....Bill Clinton was impeached and found innocent by the Senate. A bunch of no-ball bastards.


4 posted on 10/31/2012 11:33:10 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
House of Representatives can indict; Senate is the jury....Bill Clinton was impeached and found innocent by the Senate.

That's not exactly how it works. The House tried and convicted Clinton, which is why he is called the impeached president. The Senate assesses penalties and they refused to assess any penalty on Clinton which was why he was never removed from office or assessed any other penalty as the result of being impeached.

The last part of your post is dead on!

62 posted on 10/31/2012 12:05:07 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: Gaffer

Clinton wasn’t “found innocent”, he was not convicted because a majority didn’t find him guilty. On the third count of the indictment, there was a 50-50 split.


82 posted on 10/31/2012 12:13:19 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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