Ex-President Clinton resigns from Supreme Court bar rather than fight suspension

AP ^ | 11/9/01 | ANNE GEARAN

[aristeides]

I don't remember the details of that rule change, but I do remember it was made while Clinton was still president, and that it would allow him to serve in positions like directorships of investment banks.

[connectthedots]

Great Freeper home page.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

ping

[jws3sticks]

I just had to do it. BillieBlobSlick, the red nosed ex leader of the free world and the tallest living slimy garden slug on earth.

[Amore]

Ok, now that he's resigned, I've definitely got to get my certificate framed. The prestige just went up markedly!

[Owen]

This is very bad. If he's allowed to resign, then
the record of Supreme Court disbarrment may be expunged.

We should lobby strongly to have the Supreme Court finish
its deliberations on disbarring him from the court.
His attempt to resign should be ignored, or
interepreted as a failure to offer a defense.

[w1andsodidwe]

As a 13 year old in 1960, I watched Richard Nixon lose the presidential election to Kennedy, through the DemocRAT party manipulation of the votes in Cook county Illinois. Nixon choose not to fight it for the good of the country.

When his operatives broke into the Watergate during for his 1972 election to gain access to democRAT dirty tricks information, it was understandable in the context of 1960.

Nixon was not involved in the original crime, he did however stand by those that worked for him. Thus the coverup occured.

I remember it crossing my mind "Well everybody does it". I then reminded myself, "Doesn't matter, Can't use that as an excuse". By the time Nixon resigned, I felt he had to go.

And he did, for the good of the country again.

Looking at Clinton's continual use of the EVERYBODY ELSE DOES IT DEFENSE, who do you think was the better man?

[Amore]

This is very bad. If he's allowed to resign, then the record of Supreme Court disbarrment may be expunged.

No, it doesn't work like that.

[blackbart1]

Likewise, Clinton could reapply if he regains his law license, in Arkansas or elsewhere, and keeps it blemish-free for three years.

IMPOSSIBLE!

[shiva]

Who would have thought? Lawyers are actually a higher life form than the Clintons.

Hahahaha, that's a good one!!!

[Hillary 666]

As much as I despise Klinton, I'm glad he didn't just slink off into the night never to be seen again. I'm actually glad that he is still out and about making a complete jackass of himself.

The press has a real short memory, and Bubba is still doing such blatantly stupid things (like saying at a college speech that we deserved to get attacked on 9/11) that even the diehard degenerate liberals out there can't sidestep it by making lame excuses and minimizations. He is that blatant!

Make the liberals have to see their poster boy every day doing stupid things that the average juvenile delinquent is smart enough to stay away from.

[Norb2569]

I can hear Begala now, "the president just wants to save the government money so Chelsea won't worry about the money it will take to help our home town, New York, and he also wants this vast, Republican led, right wing conspiracy to an end".

ROFLMAO!!

[putupon]

bill clinton is a stinking lump of excrement from the lowest form of life on earth. He resides in a dank, fetid sewer of human filth and degradation, wallowing in the putrescent muck and bodily waste of other low forms of life. Yup. That's it.

Good try, but thats a compliment to a clinton.

[ambrose]

probably was hoping his appeal would be denied by a 5-4 vote. He probably got the inside word from Ruthy Bader that the vote against him would be 9-0.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Clinton is doing nothing but playing a PR game so he can say he can say he resigned and not have to say he was disbarred. It's all about spin. He is disbarred and chose not to fight it. It is a simple as that.

The game was over before resignation. Clinton's mass media fictional threat to fight disbarment from the beginning was the heart and sole of the plan. Who cares how he avoids it now? What sticks in the public's mind is his intent to fight it, and they will rationalize the outcome to fit their perception of that. And Clinton... knows it.

[Capt_Hank]

Well, I made myself watch ABC news with Peter. I wanted t see if anything was said about the event. No such luck. Well now to send an email to ABC News to confirm again, why I don't watch their selected news.

[upchuck]

My take on this is that The SCUMBAG said, "Hey, WTF, I'll never use this, 99.9% of the people don't understand the SC Bar, I'm making 100K per speech, let it go."

GRIFTER!!

[newzjunkey]

He just didn't want to distract the Media from their war coverage so he sacrificed himself for the good of America.

[IRtorqued]

please refrain from giving fetid sewers a bad name.
thank you.