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...House decides to impeach the President on Thursday, a political majority which despises Bill Clinton and wants to remove him from office at any cost will have prevailed, at the expense of the integrity of the Constitution. House Republicans know that the Senate will likely not convict Bill Clinton if the case goes to trial. Nevertheless, they would use the constitutional procedure of impeachment as a substitute for censure. This amounts to a grave abuse of their power...
...long, oh Lord, must we suffer? A lot depends on the House -- a vote to impeach means at least another six months of Monica. Meanwhile, President Clinton travels to the land of Canan -- but not before uttering an impassioned plea: Let my people...
Beer is the third Harvard professor to testify before the committee. Last week, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and Public Service Professor of Jurisprudence A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. testified as legal experts. Both agreed with Beer that there are not sufficient grounds to impeach the President...
...featured a former U.S. attorney general and a passel of historians, star experts for the Clinton defense who gave their view on whether the President has committed an impeachable offense (he hasn't). This was followed by three Nixon impeachment veterans who gave their "what would the Rodino committee do" take (they wouldn't impeach). Still to come: Witnesses discussing abuses of power and defining whether obstruction of justice and perjury has been committed (our guess: it hasn't). The big guns come tomorrow when Clinton tries to appeal to the swing vote, the moderate Republicans, by trotting...
When I heard that Newt Gingrich was stepping down as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, I recalled your article [NATION, Oct. 12] "On the Fast Track to Impeach," in which you wrote, "It takes a deft touch to set the right trap; but if you do, the other one will stumble right into it." I believe Gingrich set the right trap, but he himself stumbled right into it! KHASHAYAR RIAZY Tehran...