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Obama Getting Heat From Left and Right for U.S. Role in Libyan Attacks
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyPresident Obama is getting blowback from both sides of the aisle for taking military action in Libya without first formally consulting Congress. Debate in Washington heated up even before reports Tuesday that a U.S. warplane, patrolling Libyan air space, had crashed. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), a conservative member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Obama's "unilateral choice" to join a U.N.-backed coalition establishing a no-fly zone "is an affront to our Constitution," The Hill newspaper reported. The United States, Bartlett said, "does not have a king's army." Meanwhile, a CBS ...
C-SPAN Supreme Court Series: United States v. Nixon
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThis is the 10th and final column in a Politics Daily series complementing C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The broadcasts afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the laws that have shaped our lives in countless ways. The last tape in the series focuses on the epic United States v. Nixon, a case that effectively ended a presidency in 1974. It will be heard on C-SPAN Radio at 6 ...
Jim Morrison Pardoned, Judge Porteous Impeached: The Law at Work
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWho says the Congress stalls on matters involving federal judges? After a trial that lasted only a day, the Senate sure voted quickly to oust impeached U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous, Jr., didn't it? There wasn't even the hint of a whiff of a filibuster when members of the august chamber voted 96-0 (on the first of four charges) to convict and remove just the eighth federal judge in American history to be laid low by "high crimes and misdemeanors." The judge's defenses -- that the bribes came mostly when he was a state judge and that there are few legal ethics in Louisiana -- ...
Senate Removes Judge Thomas Porteous Jr. Following Impeachment Trial
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Senate found U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. guilty on four articles of impeachment Wednesday, removing him from his lifetime appointment to the federal bench in Louisiana and denying him his federal pension. Porteous, 63, sat in the well of the Senate as members cast their votes against him. He is just the eighth judge in American history to be removed from office by the Senate. Sen. Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Impeachment Committee, said that he hoped the decision would help Porteous to make changes in his life, for his own good and that of his family. "I ...
Iranian Lawmakers Move to Impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 23) -- Iran's parliament moved to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this weekend but was thwarted by orders from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an Ahmadinejad supporter, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing conservative papers in Iran. In a report released Sunday, which was discussed in parliament on Monday, lawmakers accused "Ahmadinejad and his government of 14 counts of violating the law, often by acting without the approval of the legislature," reports the Journal. "Charges include illegally importing gasoline and oil, failing to provide budgetary transparency and ...
Senate Opens Impeachment Trial for Judge
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 13) -- A federal judge from Louisiana is corrupt and unfit to serve on the bench, House members said Monday as they began a rare congressional impeachment trial by laying out their case against the jurist. Playing the role of prosecutors, Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., used their opening statements to a Senate impeachment panel to outline what they called a decades-long pattern of unethical behavior by New Orleans-area U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous. They said that included taking cash, expensive meals and gifts from lawyers and a bail ...
Monica Lewinsky Tells Author of Impeachment Book that Bill Clinton Lied to the Grand Jury
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyIn a scholarly book soon to be published on the 1990s presidential impeachment saga, Monica Lewinsky is quoted as saying that former President William Jefferson Clinton committed perjury before the Whitewater grand jury while testifying about their physical relationship. Clinton's convoluted testimony has, for a decade, been the frequent source of lampooning. His "it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is" has entered the lexicon as an example of male obfuscation. His parsing of a judge's language in his sexual harassment case led the then-president to assert with a straight face that when ...
South Carolina Governor Dodges Impeachment
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Dec. 10) -- What does a politician have to do these days to get booted out of office? Apparently, more than what South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford did. After tearfully admitting an affair with a woman in Argentina, Sanford was accused of dozens of ethics violations involving his travel and use of campaign funds. Through the summer, the man once touted as a 2012 Republican presidential contender faced mounting calls from lawmakers in both parties to resign. Getty ImagesSouth Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wept at a June 24 news conference as he admitted having an affair. But on Wednesday, a ...
Mark Sanford Impeachment Possible, Republican State Senator Says
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) is under even more pressure from his own party. A Republican state senator is raising the possibility of impeachment, accusing Sanford of violating state regulations by not choosing the lowest rate available for two international commercial flights for state business. ...
Senate Begins First Impeachment Since Bill Clinton's
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Senate began impeachment proceedings this morning against Samuel B. Kent, a federal judge in Texas who has refused to resign from his lifetime appointment to the bench before 2010, even though he is currently serving a 33-month sentence in federal prison for obstruction of justice. This is the the first impeachment in Congress since then-President Bill Clinton was impeached by the House and subsequently acquitted by the Senate in 1999. Last year, Kent was indicted on multiple counts of sexual misconduct after two former employees filed complaints, saying he repeatedly made unwanted sexual ...
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