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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
As I recall, if found guilty by the Senate, an impeached Prez can only be booted from office. Regular civil action can follow, but the punishment from a Senate conviction is limited to expulsion. But I can dream and would still love to see that criminal put away.
111 posted on 01/19/2006 12:24:09 PM PST by Jacquerie (Democrats soil institutions)
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To: Jacquerie

"As I recall, if found guilty by the Senate, an impeached Prez can only be booted from office. Regular civil action can follow, but the punishment from a Senate conviction is limited to expulsion. But I can dream and would still love to see that criminal put away."

Many legal eagles told me that you can't impeach a former prez, only a sitting one. Therefore, we'd need an amendment anyway, I suppose, to impeach Clinton. The advantage of a Clinton Amendment is we can add all kinds of reasonable clauses in it that ensure Bubba lands in prison, penniless, and/or hunted by navy seals if he tries to flee or hide. Reasonable as in, not naming him, but saying, "Any president who pardons... bla-bla-bla... making it tough to argue with such a reasonable punishment for such a terrible misuse of power.


113 posted on 01/19/2006 2:56:37 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March ("Republicans are pure evil." -- Dizzy Dean. Watch "Blood Trail" sometime, Dizzy.)
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