Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone. Currently, only the attorney general can dismiss independent counsels. But the attorney general is constrained by political considerations. She could hardly dismiss Starr, no matter how badly he conducted his investigation. Why not give the same three-judge panel that appoints independent counsels, or some other non-partisan body, the authority to remove them...
...someone. Currently, only the attorney general can dismiss independent counsels. But the attorney general is constrained by political considerations. She could hardly dismiss Starr, no matter how badly he conducted his investigation. Why not give the same three-judge panel that appoints independent counsels, or some other non-partisan body, the authority to remove them...
...finally over. After five years and nigh on $50 million of phony, partisan investigations and more than a year of media hysteria and round-the-clock cable coverage, the scandal has finally come to a close. The Senate vote will mark an end to this ugly chapter, and congressional Democrats and Republicans will make peace and begin solving the problems of the next millennium...
Because in the Year of Perpetual Polling, the public never caught the fever of the combatants. Week after week the argument was framed by the extremes: the politicians and the pundits created a cross fire in which every action was cast as either a partisan plot or an assault on justice. Yet no matter how appalling the details, the public generally kept its distance from the shouting and weighed the evidence carefully...
...Senate performed admirably. Senators resisted calls to short-circuit the trial required by the Constitution, while preventing the proceedings from dragging on longer than necessary. Though Republican senators did ram through several procedural votes along party lines, the trial as a whole bore little resemblance to the partisan fray in the House...