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To: SittinYonder

Are you a lawyer or a legislator?

Would a lawyer please weigh in on the issue. I think impeached means accused or charged. Sittin thinks it means successfully convicted.

I am going on eighth grade civics and my memory of Watergate and the Clintons.


1,047 posted on 07/01/2005 11:58:51 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl
Are you a lawyer or a legislator?

Geez louise! I don't need to be a lawyer to know how to read. Look it up for yourself.

I never said "successfully convicted" and don't misstate what I've said. I said Nixon was not impeached because you said Nixon was impeached.

Clinton was impeached.

I am going on eighth grade civics and my memory of Watergate and the Clintons.

Then find better sources.

1,052 posted on 07/01/2005 12:01:47 PM PDT by SittinYonder (America is the Last Beach)
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To: cajungirl
Would a lawyer please weigh in on the issue. I think impeached means accused or charged. Sittin thinks it means successfully convicted.

Impeached means formally charged by a majority vote of the House of Representatives. Convicted means convicted by a 2/3 vote of the Senate.

Of Presidents, only Andrew Johnson and Clinton were impeached; neither was convicted. Nixon was about to be impeached-- the House Judiciary Committee had unanimously recommended one article of impeachment, and had recommended two others by big margins-- but he resigned first.

1,160 posted on 07/01/2005 2:16:25 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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