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.
And on Friday afternoon no less so it will be old news by Monday. Where have we seen this before? ;~))
Yeah! That, too!!!
Thanks!
Always fun to read about 'bubba' getting it in the neck.
How about their honor and character? Oh, I forgot...we're talking about lawyers here.
Stay well - Stay safe - stay armed - Yorktown
Clinton's humiliation will be soft-pedaled in a very minor key by the media, when full prosecution of Bubba for blatant felonious perjury should have taken place.
A full-blown court case would have forced the lamestream into presenting the specific details of Clinton's premeditated and criminal lying--dispicably done right in the Courtroom of his former law student.
All questions concerning the reason for Clinton's Impeachment would have been clarified and the issue finally laid to rest.
Ray's cutting a deal with Clinton and his gang of shyster lawyers was A BIG MISTAKE.
His actions merited censure.....????
HE LIED UNDER OATH! HE COMMITTED PERJURY!
Of course he'll try to rewrite history in his 'Taj Mahal Libary' but Ray's & the Supreme Court's actions are now on record for history!
Do you remember that not one Justice of the Supreme Court attended his last State of the Union Address? I wonder if even the liberals couldn't ignore his blatant disregard of the Law & the Constitution he had sworn to uphold?
By now, the donations into their legal defense funds are drying up, and its good to milk these bastages of their funds and give them to their lawyers.
Who would have thought? Lawyers are actually a higher life form than the Clintons.
Aside from that, how would you rate him?
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