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.
The difference? If Clinton is disbarred, he will never again be eligible to be admitted to the Supreme Court bar. He will resign now, avoid the stain of permanent disbarment, and be READMITTED under sponsorship of a sympathetic liberal Democrat sponsor at a latter date. He will reminisce about the bad old days with a good ol' boy chuckle, perhaps ten years down the road, and DECLARE VINDICATION, as well as victory.
As an aside: Democrats (and other leftists fellow travelers) never quit. They execute tactical retreats. It's the GOP sheeple who go sleeping at their proverbial posts, allowing the retreating Democrats to advance forward to seize victory from the jaws of defeat. Never drop your guard, nor turn your back on a Democrat.
FRegards to all.
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Someone head over to DU and fill them in. They seem to have missed the story!
AND waited until late on Friday to ensure this news would fall into the nomemory hole, no news on Saturday effect.
Don't try to build Clinton up.
Peter, I think you just insulted muck and bodily waste. Clinton is MUCH lower than that.
clinton is so low, he can walk underneath a snakes belly while wearing a top hat...
Ex-President Clinton resigns from Supreme Court bar rather than fight suspension
but this would have been better 2 years ago
President Clinton resigns
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