And why push for impeachment when it would hand the White House over to fairly-clean Mr Gore?
Clinton's lawyers have said they want to call witnesses to discuss the constitutional standards for impeachment and standards for prosecution of perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of power, as well as exploring prosecutorial misconduct and the impact of tainted evidence.
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As the mastermind of the Republican takeover of the House in 1994, and a cheerleader for Mr Clinton's impeachment, his partisan credentials are beyond doubt.
Its members include Fernando Collor, a former president who resigned in 1992 while facing impeachment for corruption, and Marcelo Crivella, a bishop in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Pentecostal outfit.
We read the precedents differently and see that initiating an impeachment process for only the third time in American history takes a far higher threshold than simply making a laundry list of laws a president may have violated.
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For these reasons, we concluded that perjury and obstruction of justice, like bribery, may constitute grounds for an impeachment.
With Gingrich out, Hyde's committee in obvious disarray and Livingston showing no stomach for dealing with the impeachment mess, the troops had no leader to guide them.
As for Reagan and Clinton, despite Iran-Contra and impeachment, their second terms were mostly policy successes.
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Third, I would briefly compare the facts against the constitutional requirements that an impeachment may proceed only for high crimes and misdemeanors and only on the basis of clear and convincing evidence.
Since Congress is scheduled to be in town for just four more weeks between now and November, actual impeachment proceedings almost certainly couldn't happen this year.
History and the precedents alike, show that impeachment is not a punishment for crimes, but a means to protect our constitutional system.
Without any hesitation, he prepared an affidavit that the impeachment committee for the Illinois state assembly already has, and he's going to go answer any other questions they might have.
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With Clinton's approval ratings still in orbit and the opposition to impeachment screaming from every last poll, it was easy for the President's men to imagine that they were over the rainbow.
Congress also began impeachment hearings on Wednesday for deputies Sandro Mabel of the Brazilian Liberal Party and Romeu Queiroz of the Labour Party.
The last President to do so was President Nixon, and he had sufficient reverence for the office to resign before the House even voted articles of impeachment.
They did not suggest that Senators park their common sense and their stewardship for the security of our country at the Senate door as they entered into an impeachment trial.
During Mr Bani-Sadr's impeachment the next year, he stood on the parliament balcony and, as the crowd roared for the president to be hanged, put his chubby fingers puckishly round his own neck.
Richard Lugar (R-Indiana): Mr. Chief Justice, for the first time in 120 years, and only for the second time in U.S. history, the Senate is about to conclude a Presidential impeachment trial.
With judges, the Senate must weigh and balance its concern for the independence of the judiciary against the recognition that because a judge is appointed for life, impeachment is the only available method for removing from office those who are corrupt.
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