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...Senate's vote last week to acquit the president on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice came as little surprise. Despite desperate last-minute attempts to bolster their case with yet another round of testimony from witnesses, the House impeachment managers throughout the trial were unable to provide a compelling explanation for how the president's actions in the Monica Lewinsky affair met the constitutional standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors." Neither charge could muster a simple majority, a sign of how weak the House's charges were from the beginning...
...impeachment process may have finally ended last Friday afternoon with the Senate voting to acquit President Clinton, but faculty and students remain divided on whether the scandal of the year will become a permanent punchline or a bona fide political landmark...
MOST MAVERICK SENATOR Then: Edmund Ross (6) of Kansas, whose vote to acquit was the trial breaker Now: Russ Feingold (7) of Wisconsin, only Democrat to break ranks in early votes...
Ideally, the Senate should abandon the public, roll-call procedure that it adopted in 1868 for President Andrew Johnson's trial and instead require the senators to vote anonymously at trial's end to acquit or convict...
...Lott's plan would allow the wavering Senate to get the trial over with quickly and push the whole complicated mess into the history books by mid-month. Since Lott already sees that the Senate is almost certain to acquit, he's eager to minimize the damage to Senate Republicans that would be caused by a prolonged march toward a Clinton victory. The President's upcoming schedule is also a strong reason to speed things up. After the State of the Union speech January 19th, a forum in which he traditionally shines, Clinton will spend time touring the country memorializing...