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...House does go forward with an extensive inquiry, and then votes to impeach the President, a final vote on conviction in the Senate may not take place until next summer. In the meantime, the President will continue to be as hindered as he has appeared to be in the weeks since the Starr Report was delivered to Congress. Staff and supporters will continue to jump ship, other leading Democrats will keep their distance and the media will keep on giving short shrift to substantive issues...
Amid the political noise surrounding the upcoming vote by the House Judiciary Committee on whether to impeach President Clinton, it's easy to ignore some of the more fascinating political campaigns this fall. Take Dartboard's current favorite incumbent, Senator Al D'Amato (R-New York), who is burning up the airwaves with commercials pitting Manhattan against the rest of the state. The commercials, accompanied by the soundtrack from Jaws,imply that liberal downstate politicians (such as D'Amato's opponent, Rep. Charles E. Schumer) will take funding away from those north of the Bronx...
...then there is the ultimate question of whether to impeach. If last week is any guide, a lot more straight party votes may lie ahead. But proceeding with a matter as important as impeachment by strict party-line votes could be a mistake. "You can't run impeachment as a partisan matter," says University of Rochester political-science professor Richard Fenno. "For either party to ram impeachment through on the basis of a majority would not be a very happy solution for the country in general and for the party that does...
Shouldn't high crimes and misdemeanors at least be crimes in the criminal code? Once again, no: impeachment is a political, not a criminal, process, designed to remove officials who abuse their powers. Law professors use an example: if a Senator moves to the Bahamas and refuses to return, she isn't committing a crime, but she is abusing her office. Conversely, if she shoplifts from the Georgetown Gap, we probably shouldn't impeach her for such a petty crime. Says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe: "The criminal process typically serves [to impose] punishment. Impeachment is a prophylactic device...
...third time would reject him. That would mean dissolution of the Duma and new elections, as banks continued to fail and the ruble plunged. But the communists in parliament warned that if Yeltsin ordered them to leave, they would not go. They started up the machinery to impeach the President. Key military and security units around Moscow were put on heightened alert. It felt a lot like 1993, when Yeltsin ordered tanks to fire on the parliament building to dissolve a rebellious legislature. Meanwhile, governors across Russia began to act on their own to replace the central government that...