Posted on 11/09/2001 11:07:59 AM PST by truthandlife
Former President Clinton asked to resign from the Supreme Court bar Friday, rather than fight suspension or disbarment related to the Paula Jones sexual harassment investigation.
The high court suspended Clinton Oct. 1 as a follow-up to suspension of his law license in his home state of Arkansas. The high court gave Clinton until Friday to say why he should not be permanently barred from appearing before the high court as a lawyer.
Clinton lawyer David Kendall, in a letter to the court clerk, linked Clinton's request to the loss of his Arkansas law license.
On Jan. 19, a day before he left office, Clinton agreed to a 5-year suspension of the license and a $25,000 fine as part of a settlement that ended the Monica Lewinsky investigation. Independent Counsel Robert Ray agreed not to prosecute Clinton after he left office.
The agreement also satisfied the legal effort by the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct to disbar Clinton for giving misleading testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
"In order to avoid the burden of litigation for all parties, to achieve an expeditious and definitive resolution, and in acknowledgment that his actions merited censure, former President Clinton agreed to the suspension and fine," Kendall wrote Friday.
The high court could act on Clinton's request as soon as Tuesday.
Supreme Court disbarment typically follows disbarment in lower courts, and is considered final. In a few cases, lawyers who have successfully regained their law licenses in lower courts have successfully won reinstatement at the Supreme Court. Likewise, Clinton could reapply if he regains his law license, in Arkansas or elsewhere, and keeps it blemish-free for three years.
Membership in the Supreme Court bar is largely ceremonial, but is regarded as an honor among lawyers. Membership requires a sponsor who is already a member, and who will vouch for the candidate's qualifications.
Clinton was admitted to the Supreme Court bar in 1977, when he was Arkansas attorney general. Like most lawyers admitted to the high court bar, Clinton has never argued a case before it.
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.
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?
No, it doesn't work like that.
IMPOSSIBLE!
Hahahaha, that's a good one!!!
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.
ROFLMAO!!
Good try, but thats a compliment to a clinton.
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.
GRIFTER!!
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