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Article: Clinton lawyers forced to testify: Chief justice refuses to delay federal court ruling
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 4, 1998
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WASHINGTON - Turning aside an urgent White House appeal for the
second time in a month, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist cleared
the way today for prosecutors to question White House lawyers about
their advice to President Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky case.
Rehnquist refused to postpone a federal appeals court ruling that
White House lawyers could not invoke attorney-client privilege and
must answer questions before a federal grand jury investigating an
alleged presidential affair and cover-up.
That ruling involved presidential lawyer and confidant Bruce
Lindsey, who as a result of Rehnquist's decision will have to testify
after he completes his recovery from back surgery last week.
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