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Article: SHOULD CLINTON BE IMPEACHED OR CENSURED?
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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The Special Report in Current Issues this month centers on the impeachment hearings. Prior to the House vote authorizing an inquiry, I wrote to Henry Hyde, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, suggesting that the committee ultimately recommend censure rather than impeachment. However, I added that its inquiry should extend to all of William Jefferson Clinton's misdemeanors and criminal acts to make clear the standards that should govern the behavior of a president.
(Why so many legal scholars have argued that Congress lacks the authority to pass separate or joint resolutions of censure I cannot understand. Although Congress may lack the authority to impose a ...