{"id":5018,"date":"2017-11-19T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T12:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/19\/bill-clintons-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2017-11-19T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T12:07:12","slug":"bill-clintons-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/19\/bill-clintons-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton’s Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard Representative Jackie Speier (D-California) say on Face the Nation<\/em> this morning that former U. S. president William Jefferson Clinton "faced impeachment."<\/span><\/p>\n

Not so. He was impeached<\/a>. What he faced, but did not suffer, was removal from office. <\/span><\/p>\n

Impeachment is not the same as removal from office. Impeachment is analogous to indictment in regular court proceedings. The House of Representatives votes to impeach, and then the Senate conducts the trial. Clinton was acquitted of the charges brought against him, perjury and obstruction of justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

You would expect a  member of Congress to know that. But then she's a Dem . . . or maybe she just misspoke.<\/span><\/p>\n

The trouble with the Democrat Party is that so many of its leading 'lights' are dimwits, Nancy Pelosi heading the list. What gives this airhead such staying power? Answer: a preternatural ability to raise money.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I heard Representative Jackie Speier (D-California) say on Face the Nation this morning that former U. S. president William Jefferson Clinton "faced impeachment." Not so. He was impeached. What he faced, but did not suffer, was removal from office.  Impeachment is not the same as removal from office. Impeachment is analogous to indictment in regular … Continue reading “Bill Clinton’s Impeachment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}