Subject:  Is Clinton above the law???? 
Date:     Mon, 9 Nov 1998 110935 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Hi everybody:

Have you ever wondered about how "blind" lady justice 'really'
is in the U.S.?  

There are now a reported 115 persons in our federal prisons
for doing what the President of the U.S. did -- not once, but
twice!!  Lie "under oath" to a Federal Judge.....

Now comes a statement by a bunch of lawyers (below) who argue that
the same standards should not apply to the President???

They -- of all people -- you would expect to recognize the
importance of applying the law equally to ALL citizens.  I'm
afraid, the truth is -- they (like so many these days) are
not applying "legal" principles having to do with the integrity
of our system of jurisprudence, particularly where the senior law
enforcement 'officer' of the land is involved --  they are just
reading the polls.....

It won't take long for our Constitution to ***dissolve*** under the 
weight of "expediency" if their recommendation (below) is to  set
the standard for Presidential behavior in the future.....

Cheerio.....

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................

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03:39 PM ET 11/06/98

More than 400 law professors denounce Starr report

        
            WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some 430 law professors  Friday
denounced independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report on the
Monica Lewinsky scandal, saying its allegations do not justify
impeachment of President Clinton.
            In an open letter to House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the legal
experts from across the United States said that under the U.S.
Constitution, no president can be impeached unless he has
committed treason, bribery ``or other high crimes and
misdemeanors.''
            ``Short of heinous criminality, impeachment demands
convincing evidence of grossly derelict exercise of official
authority,'' the professors wrote. ``In our judgment, Mr.
Starr's report contains no such evidence.''
            ``Notwithstanding our different approaches to politics, to
President Clinton ... the signatories of this letter united
because we fear (impeachment of Clinton) will lower the bar for
what warrants impeachment ... and will dangerously weaken the
office of the presidency for the foreseeable future,'' said
Susan Bloch, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
        
 ^REUTERS@




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