BIll clinton:
Was he or was he not impeached?
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DARK MAN X
BIll clinton:
Impeached but not convicted.
(Personally, I think the fact he was impeached was pathetic too, but that’s a question for another forum.)
House majority voted to impeach Bill but not the Senate majority. I think he and Andrew Johnson are the only two presidents to ever be impeached. Tricky Dicky Nixon might have, had he not resigned. Nobody has been removed from office.
Impeached but not convicted.
Smoked but not inhaled.
I did not have sex with that woman.
Slick Willie is bullet proof!
…Impeached but not convicted.
Falcon…WHAT THE HECK does THAT mean??? I thought he was let off on everything…impeached but not convicted…isnt that kinda like being pregnant but not having a baby??? I’m not attacking what you’ve said but now I’m confused.
Risk looking foolish for love, for your dreams, and for the joy of living…
…Impeached but not convicted.
Falcon…WHAT THE HECK does THAT mean??? I thought he was let off on everything…impeached but not convicted…isnt that kinda like being pregnant but not having a baby??? I’m not attacking what you’ve said but now I’m confused.
Risk looking foolish for love, for your dreams, and for the joy of living…
…Impeached but not convicted.
Falcon…WHAT THE HECK does THAT mean??? I thought he was let off on everything…impeached but not convicted…isnt that kinda like being pregnant but not having a baby??? I’m not attacking what you’ve said but now I’m confused.
Risk looking foolish for love, for your dreams, and for the joy of living…
…Impeached but not convicted.
Falcon…WHAT THE HECK does THAT mean??? I thought he was let off on everything…impeached but not convicted…isnt that kinda like being pregnant but not having a baby??? I’m not attacking what you’ve said but now I’m confused.
Risk looking foolish for love, for your dreams, and for the joy of living…
Tigs: this is a common misconception.
“Impeachment” basically means that the house decideds to have a trial. The person who is “impeached” (read: required to stand trial) can be found innocent of the charges(and has, in every case thus far)
Since the House rarely determines an offence to be worthy of impeachment (read again: required to stand trial) it is pretty bad. It is not, however, equal to a guilty verdict.
rmariamp correctly noted that:
“Impeachment” basically means that the house decides to have a trial.
In other words, officially an “impeachment” is similar to the “indictment” that precedes a criminal trial–i.e. the U.S. House of Representatives says, by majority vote, that it feels enough evidence exists to require a Senate trial.
The person who is “impeached” (read: required to stand trial) can be found innocent of the charges (and has, in every case thus far)
Even after you are impeached, you aren’t removed from office unless you are found guilty by a 2/3rds majority of the Senate. Also, the “every case” statement above is a little misleading. It is true that in both Presidential cases (Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton) the individuals impeached were not found guilty by a 2/3rds majority, thus were not removed from office. But the House can impeach other federal officials suspected of wrongdoing–most commonly judges. And in the Senate trials for these officials, some have in fact been convicted by a 2/3rds Senate majority, and removed from office.
Whitetho said: But the House can impeach other federal officials suspected of wrongdoing–most commonly judges. And in the Senate trials for these officials, some have in fact been convicted by a 2/3rds Senate majority, and removed from office.
Very true – I spoke in haste and should have said “In every presidential impeachment thus far”
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Tigs -
Was going to answer, but rmariamp and whitetho did it for me. And I agree with rmariamp, getting impeached is bad, but it’s not the same as being convicted. It just means they had enough evidence to try the official.
I’ve often heard Clinton referred to as the Timex president. Takes a lickin’, keeps on tickin’.
LOL 
Anyway, impeach, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, means
Clearly, it does not suggest conviction. Impeachment is similar to the pre-trial hearing in the O.J. case to decide whether or not there was sufficient evidence to indict him.
“[He] beat his fist down upon the table and hurt his hand and became so
further enraged… that he beat his fist down upon the table even harder and
hurt his hand some more.” – Joseph Heller’s Catch-22
Impeach: A “fuzzy as a peach” word, not at all what we, American Public, think it means!
(Why are Governors technically “recalled”?)
Jinx: (Why are Governors technically “recalled”?)
Because they’re all robots built by GM in Detroit. 
Judges 14:9 - So [Samson] scraped the honey into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion.
A thread revived six months after it died. That’s gotta be a record! (Check the dates.)
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No kidding. I do have a tangential question. What exactly is the mechanism upon conviction. We all learned in History Class that one President has a little “sit-down” on Inauguration Day, and imparts some secrets of State to the incoming sucker.
Okay, fine, little pressure there. If Clinton had been convicted, he would have not been President AS OF THAT SECOND, correct? Would he be permitted back into the White House, which is both a private residence and the Office of the President?
Inquiring minds wish to know !!
Cartooniverse
If you want to kiss the sky, you’d better learn how to kneel.
If the president were convicted, I believe he would be out of office as soon as he is presented with the official documents from the Senate that he is through. I imagine someone from the Senate would drop it off at the Secretary of State’s office. The Vice-President would be sworn in and that would take care of the legalities.
I would assume the ex-president would take a day or two to move out. I assume he or she could do it. After all, the British PM has to move out of 10 Downing Street the day after the election.
Is this the same thing? The “recall” I know of is something implemented by some states during the Progressive era, whereby officials can be, as it were, “unelected” in a special recall election.
Impeachment is something else again. It’s more nearly like a criminal trial.
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“Compact is becoming contract; man only earns and pays.”
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