Court Called Clinton's Disbarment Bluff

NewsMax | Friday Nov. 9, 2001 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[truther]

Court Called Clinton's Disbarment Bluff

Ex-president Bill Clinton decided to resign from the U.S. Supreme Court bar on Friday rather than contest the finding that he was unfit to practice law there for one simple reason -- the Court called his bluff.

Recall the statement issued by his lawyer David Kendall last month, when the court issued its suspension order and gave Clinton forty days to make that case that he shouldn't be disbarred permanently.

"This suspension is simply a consequence of the voluntary settlement entered into last January with the Arkansas bar," Kendall told reporters in October. "Pursuant to the Supreme Court's order, we will show cause why disbarment is not appropriate."

That was then, this is now. And now Clinton's lawyer is singing a different tune.

"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.

Gone was the boast that Clinton hadn't admitted to lying in his "no prosecution" plea bargain with Independent Counsel Robert Ray's office -- a claim Kendall made just in January, just hours after Ray said just the opposite.

Also vanished into thin air, the ex-President's promise that he's have "a lot to say" about all the charges leveled against him by various women.

"When I am out of office, I will have a lot to say about this," Clinton told a reporter who had asked about the Paula Jones case in October 1999. "When I'm done, then I can say what I want to say," he added.

Well, Clinton's been "done" for 10 months now and hasn't offered a peep about the Jones case since leaving the White House.

His big chance to clear the air and his name would have been to contest the Supreme Court's disbarment. Instead he resigned.

Clinton might have done the same thing three years ago had the U.S. Senate demonstrated as much integrity as the Court and held a real impeachment trial.

[truther]

...he resigned. Clinton might have done the same thing three years ago ...

Then America wouldn't go through 9-11 ordeal. CLINTOON IS THE MOST DISGRACEFUL FIGURE IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

[Williams]

Certainly one of the very worst presidents.

[Sunburnt in Seattle]

The very worst.

[Sunburnt in Seattle]

The lack of principles displayed by the Senate when they chose to mock the House and aid and abet The Toon is why I helped retire Slade Gorton. Slade, it's not enough to be a Republican to get the votes of principled Republicans. I hope those considering running for office on the Republican ticket in the future learn from your mistake.

[backhoe]

Indexed!

[boomop1]

My hope is that this is the beginning of his slide to oblivion, we may never recover from his acts of treason.

[michigander]

Your words were never more appropiate!

[prognostigaator]

How do you resign when you have been fired first?

[michigander]

appropiate = appropriate

Doh!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I just mentioned to someone this afternoon that no one in politics has ever been more of an embarrassment to the American people. In spite of this, the size of his ego is simply beyond comprehension. This "world I worked so hard for eight years to build" stuff is actually scary. The man is sick.

[JCG]

The very worst.

Worse than that.

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[stumpy]

The senate whores couldn't show backbone, clintoon had their fibbie files. What the senators did do however was show the world that they work (work???) in the worlds largest, most expensive and least satisfying BROTHEL.

[meenie]

Being a person that has been around other people that have Mr. Clinton's affliction, Bill only has a short time before insanity takes over his mental functions.

He already shows a progression toward cerebus delerium which is the first stage of cerebellum disconnectia. This will lead further to cranium enebrium which is almost always fatal to the process of rational thinking. POOR BILL!!

Dr. Meenie PHD in absentia.

[HENRYADAMS]

If the reports concerning his behavior are true then he is the most depraved individual ever to hold that exalted office.

[Hillary 666]

Gee, it comes as a real surprise that something connected with Klintoon would be dirty.

[ladyinred]

You know I agree with you that he was and still is, and apparently ever will be an embarrassement to the country. Having said that, his ego might have something to do with the fact that no matter what we think of him, this man is just adored by so many of the people in this country!
The media has built him up so high that people believe he is a master communicator,a brilliant scholar, a foreign policy genius and a caring decent man who wants to help the less fortunate, minorities, etc.
The fact that Kendall has finally admitted wrong behavior by his slimey client in this statement will be overlooked by his public, and the "deeply divided" USSC will be the evil ones who forced him out of his right to litigate before them because they are part of the VWRC!

[fhayek]

The worst presidents of the twentieth century in descending order:

Richard Nixon - Corrupt

Warren G. Harding - Incompetent

William J. Clinton - Evil

[tort_feasor]

Just finished HELL TO PAY by the sorely missed Barbra Olson. Buy a copy and show the CLINTOONS just how vast the VRWC really is.

[X-USAF]

...he resigned. Clinton might have done the same thing three years ago ...

Or he could have saved us from his first five years by not running in the first place.

[nicmarlo]

I was listening to Sean Hannity today. He was speaker to, I believe, a caller, who stated that "two federal court judges" came to the same conclusion about Clinton's antics. Clinton was "disbarred;" he DID NOT resign. That's Slick Willie's spin, that he "resigned."